HORROCKS, JEREMIAH

HORROCKS, JEREMIAH
   a celebrated astronomer, born at Toxteth, near Liverpool; passed through Cambridge, took orders, and received the curacy of Hoole, Lancashire; was devoted to astronomy, and was the first to observe the transit of Venus, of which he gave an account in his treatise "Venus in Sole Visa" (1619-1641).

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  • Horrocks , Jeremiah — (1619–1641) English astronomer Little is known about the early life of Horrocks (or Horrox) other than that he was born into a Puritan family in Toxteth, Liverpool, and was admitted to Cambridge in 1632. Even though he died ‘in his twenty second… …   Scientists

  • Horrocks, Jeremiah — ▪ British astronomer Horrocks also spelled  Horrox   born c. 1617, , Toxteth Park, near Liverpool [now in Merseyside], Eng. died Jan. 3, 1641, Toxteth Park       British astronomer and clergyman who applied Johannes Kepler s laws of planetary… …   Universalium

  • Jeremiah Horrocks — Jeremia Horrocks, bei der Vermessung des Venustransits. J. W. Lavender, 1903. Jeremiah Horrocks (* 1619 in Toxteth Park, bei Liverpool in Lancashire; † 3. Januar 1641), manchmal auch Jeremiah Horrox geschrieben, war ein englischer Astronom.… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Jeremiah Horrox — Jeremia Horrocks, bei der Vermessung des Venustransits. J. W. Lavender, 1903. Jeremiah Horrocks (* 1619 in Toxteth Park, bei Liverpool in Lancashire; † 3. Januar 1641), manchmal auch Jeremiah Horrox geschrieben, war ein englischer Astronom.… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Jeremiah Horrocks — Observation du transit de Vénus en 1639 Naissance 1619 (?) Lower Lodge, Otterspool, Toxteth Park, près de Liverpool (Angleterre) Décès 3 janvier …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Jeremiah Horrox — Jeremiah Horrocks Observation du transit de Vénus par Jeremiah Horrocks en 1639. Jeremiah Horrocks est un astronome anglais du XVIIe (1619 (?) 3 janvier 1641) …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Jeremiah Horrocks — haciendo la primera observación del Tránsito de Venus en 1639. Jeremiah Horrocks (1618 3 de enero de 1641) también llamado Jeremiah Horrox fue un astrónomo inglés que fue el primero en hacer la observación del tránsito de Venus. Horrocks nació en …   Wikipedia Español

  • Horrocks — may refer to the following people: * Jeremiah Horrocks (c. 1618–1641), English astronomer * John Horrocks (1768–1804), British cotton manufacturer * John Horrocks (1816 1881), British born resident in Weimar, army officer, author, inventor,… …   Wikipedia

  • Horrocks —   [ hɔrəks], Họrrox, Horrocius, Jeremiah, englischer Astronom, * in der County Lancashire um 1619, ✝ Toxteth Park (heute zu Liverpool) 13. 1. 1641. Horrocks beobachtete 1639 einen von ihm selbst vorherberechneten Venusdurchgang (»Venus in Sole… …   Universal-Lexikon

  • Jeremiah Horrocks — Infobox Scientist name = Jeremiah Horrocks box width = image width = 240px caption = making the first observation of the transit of Venus in 1639 birth date = 1618 birth place = Lower Lodge, Otterspool, Toxteth Park, nr Liverpool, Lancashire,… …   Wikipedia

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