The Transit of Venus: The Brief, Brilliant Life of Jeremiah Horrocks, Father of British Astronomy by Peter Aughton

The Transit of Venus: The Brief, Brilliant Life of Jeremiah Horrocks, Father of British Astronomy

Peter Aughton

232 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction biography science challenging informative medium-paced
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There is a missing chapter in the history of astronomy—between the work of Galileo and Newton—and it is a chapter that belongs to England. In the period before the English Civil War, Horrocks was the greatest astronomer in the kingdom. He knew the...

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