Jeremiah Horrocks

Jeremiah Horrocks
Jeremiah Horrocks

Jeremiah Horrocks, sometimes given as Jeremiah Horrox, 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.

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Birth Place
United Kingdom, England
Date of Death
January 3rd, 1641
Died Aged
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