Jeremiah Horrocks | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-25

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00:00:43 1 Early life and education
00:02:24 2 Astronomical observations
00:04:03 3 Lunar research
00:04:56 4 Transit of Venus
00:08:25 5 Death and remembrance
00:09:37 5.1 Jeremiah Horrocks Institute



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Jeremiah Horrocks (1618 – 3 January 1641), sometimes given as Jeremiah Horrox (the Latinised version that he used on the Emmanuel College register and in his Latin manuscripts), was an English astronomer. He was the first person to demonstrate that the Moon moved around the Earth in an elliptical orbit; and he was the only person to predict the transit of Venus of 1639, an event which he and his friend William Crabtree were the only two people to observe and record.
His early death and the chaos of the English Civil War nearly resulted in the loss to science of his treatise on the transit, Venus in sole visa; but for this and his other work he is acknowledged as one of the founding fathers of British astronomy.