Horrocks, Jeremiah (1619-41)

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 3721. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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History And Archaeoastronomy, Biographies

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Schoolmaster (?) and astronomer, born in Toxteth, near Liverpool, educated at Cambridge, lived for a mere 22 years. His colleague WILLIAM CRABTREE lived near Manchester, and the group that formed around them constituted Britain's first Keplarians, nos Keplari as they called themselves. When he found that Ptolemaic predictions of the positions of the planets were incorrect, Horrocks developed a ce...

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