Jeremiah Horrocks
English astronomer
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 ... Wikipedia
Born: 1618, Toxteth, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Died: January 3, 1641 (age 23 years), Liverpool, United Kingdom
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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 ...
Jeremiah Horrocks was an influential English astronomer born around 1619 in Toxteth Park, near Liverpool. He attended Emmanuel College at Cambridge ...
At seventeen he was enabled to become tutor at Toxteth, and two years later, i.e. in his nineteenth year, he was appointed curate at Hoole, near Preston. Soon ...
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Horrocks was twenty, and had already been doing astronomy with a more primitive instrument. Now he had a good one and was about to earn his name as the Father ...