The Transit of Venus: The Brief, Brilliant Life of Jeremiah Horrocks, Father of British Astronomy Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

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

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 positions and motions of the planets more accurately than any person of his time, and was the first to appreciate the true scale of the solar system and formulate a valid theory for the wanderings of the moon. Yet he was not an elderly grey-bearded sage, but a young man living in provincial obscurity, who on his death had barely come of age but who left a great scientific legacy.Read More

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  • 029784721X
  • 9780297847212
  • Peter Aughton
  • 3 June 2004
  • Weidenfeld & Nicolson
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 232
  • 1st
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