Jeremiah Horrox (1618-1641) was one of the most interesting
astronomers Britain has ever produced, and his tragically early
death deprived the field of one of its most brilliant talents. In
his short life he achieved much, having mastered the current state
of astronomy at Cambridge University and going on to make important
new calculations about the diameter and position of known planets,
moons and stars. In the 1660s and 70s several prominent scientists,
including Huygens, Newton and Flamsteed, took an interest in
Horrox's discoveries and published his surviving treatises. This
memoir of 1859 was part of a Victorian revival of interest in
Horrox. It includes translation of his major work, Venus in Sole
Visa, a draft of a treatise on the transit of Venus, in which he
describes the conjunction of Venus with the sun, which he correctly
calculated and observed in 1639.
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