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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.
Jeremiah Horrocks ( Toxteth, Liverpool, 1618 — Toxteth, 3 de janeiro de 1641), também chamado Jeremiah Horrox, foi um astrônomo e clérigo inglês que aplicou as leis do movimento planetário de Johannes Kepler à Lua e cujas observações de um trânsito de Vênus (1639) são as únicas registradas desse evento.
Jeremiah Horrocks was a British astronomer and clergyman who applied Johannes Kepler’s laws of planetary motion to the Moon and whose observations of a transit of Venus (1639) are the first recorded.
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Jeremiah Horrocks was an English astronomer who improved Kepler's tables and worked on the lunar theory.
1 de out. de 2004 · Learn how Jeremiah Horrocks and William Crabtree, the only two observers of the first transit of Venus in 1639, sparked the beginning of British research astronomy. Explore their observations, predictions, and legacy in the context of the Copernican revolution and the Royal Society.
- Allan Chapman
- 2004
No dia 3 de janeiro de 1641 morria precocemente, aos 23 anos, o astrônomo inglês Jeremiah Horrocks, também conhecido como Jeremiah Horrox, que utilizou as Leis do movimento planetário de Kepler à Lua.
14 de abr. de 2024 · Jeremiah Horrocks Lecture: The Extremely Large Telescope-The Biggest Eye on the Sky. April 14, 2024. Speaker: Ruben Sanchez-Janssen, UK Astronomy Technology Centre The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) is the world’s most ambitious ground-based optical-infrared astronomical facility.
