Jeremiah Horrocks Memorial Stone

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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),[1] was an English astronomer who was the only person to predict, and one of only two people to observe and record, the transit of Venus of 1639.

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Size: 5120px × 3413px
Location: Chorley, United Kingdom
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