1618 - 1641
Jeremiah Horrocks British Scientist
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| First Name |
Jeremiah
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| Last Name |
Horrocks
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| Birthday |
30th November, 1617
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| Birthplace |
Toxteth Park, Liverpool, Lancashire, England
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| Died |
3rd January, 1641
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| Place of Death |
Toxteth Park, Liverpool, Lancashire, England
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| Nationality |
British
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| Occupation |
Scientist
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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. 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. Most remarkably, Horrocks correctly asserted that Jupiter was accelerating in its orbit while Saturn was slowing and interpreted this as due to mutual gravitational interaction, thereby demonstrating that gravity's actions were not limited to the Earth, Sun, and Moon.
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