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AUGHTON, PETER / REF. JEREMIAH HORROCKS Jeremiah Horrocks, Father of British Astronomy, the Brief, Brilliant Life of - Transit of Venus
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004. First. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Photos. 6 x 9 x 1 " 029784721X 2004 Hardcover in DJ ... Brand new from publisher ... Excellent Gift Giving quality ... Never opened, Never owned , Never marked ... Jacket protected in New, clear, non-stick mylar sleeve ... 232 pages with Index ... illustrated with 8 pages of glossy color photos ... Jeremiah Horrocks ... There is a section in the history of astrononmy ... that lies between the work of Galileo and Newton, and that era belongs to a brilliant young Englishman ... Only the Englsih Civil War has robbed him of a more prominent place in history - for a whole generation scientific progress was impeded by the turmoil of the times, and much work was lost or forgotten ... But in the period berfore the war, Horrocks was the greatest astronomer in the Kingdom... He knew the positions and notions of the planets more accurately than any person of his time ... He was the first to appreciate the true scale of the solar system and to formulate a valid theory for the wanderings of the moon ... Yet he was a young man living in provincial obscurity, making independent observations which decades later would astonish the newly-formed Royal Society ...Of these, his most memorable was of a rare celestial event called the transist of Venus ... In June 2004 the image of Venus was again visdible on the face of the sun - for only the fifth time since Horrocks first observed the transit with a primitive telescope from his window in 1639 ... Although Horrocks achievements are marked by a memorial in Westminster Abbey, very few people today know the sad but romantic story of his life ... Peter Aughton's scientific and narrative skills bring alive the story of his early discoveries in astronomy and ably illustrate Horrocks' great scientific legacy ... " Transit of Venus, The : The Brief, Brilliant Life of Jeremiah Horrocks, Father of British Astronomy " ... by Peter Aughton ... published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London ... Hardcover in Dustjacket ... Brand New Gift Giving quality ...***. New/New .
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