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100 1 $aAughton, Peter,$d1940-
245 14 $aThe transit of Venus :$bthe brief, brilliant life of Jeremiah Horrocks, father of British astronomy /$cPeter Aughton.
260 $aLancaster :$bCarnegie,$c2012.
300 $a1 volume :$billustrations (chiefly color), color map, portraits (chiefly color) ;$c20 cm
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500 $a"A Windrush Press book."
500 $aOriginally published: London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $a"In June 2012 people in the USA will be able to witness the image of Venus crossing the face of the Sun, and the event will not occur again for more than a century. In Lancashire in 1639 Jeremiah Horrocks - to many the father of British astronomy - was the first to predict and see the transit of Venus, and helped transform our understanding of the solar system. He died young, but his legacy is remarkable. ..."--Back cover.
505 0 $aThe Royal Society -- Toxteth -- Cambridge -- Astronomy before Horrocks -- Horrocks studies the heavens -- Gravitation and mechanics -- Transit of Venus -- The parallax of the Sun -- The motion of the Moon -- War -- Oper Posthuma -- Towards posterity.
600 10 $aHorrocks, Jeremiah,$d1617?-1641.
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