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Jeremiah Horrocks

1618 - 1641

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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), was an English astronomer. He was the first person to demonstrate that the Moon moved around the Earth in an elliptical orbit; and he was the only person to predict the transit of Venus of 1639, an event which he and his friend William Crabtree were the only two people to observe and record. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jeremiah Horrocks has received more than 184,194 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Jeremiah Horrocks is the 199th most popular astronomer (down from 117th in 2019), the 1,618th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,138th in 2019) and the 29th most popular British Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Jeremiah Horrocks ranks 199 out of 644. Before him are Eleanor F. Helin, Andreas Cellarius, Francis Baily, Nur ad-Din al-Bitruji, Martin Schwarzschild, and Peter Andreas Hansen. After him are Bernard Lyot, Seth Barnes Nicholson, John Stanley Plaskett, Margherita Hack, Mashallah ibn Athari, and Cleomedes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1618, Jeremiah Horrocks ranks 10. Before him are Hishikawa Moronobu, Ivan Bohun, François Pierre La Varenne, François Blondel, Peter Lely, and Jan Dirksz Both. After him are Juraj Križanić, Michiel Sweerts, Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy, Mariana de Jesús de Paredes, Simon Arnauld, Marquis de Pomponne, and Vittoria Farnese. Among people deceased in 1641, Jeremiah Horrocks ranks 11. Before him are Thomas Mun, Jane Frances de Chantal, Jan Janszoon, Maximilien de Béthune, Duke of Sully, Johan Banér, and George, Duke of Brunswick-Calenberg. After him are Hedwig of Denmark, Franciscus Gomarus, Pau Claris i Casademunt, Michiel Jansz. van Mierevelt, Adam van Noort, and Pedro Teixeira.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Jeremiah Horrocks ranks 1,618 out of 8,785. Before him are Matthew Flinders (1774), Leonard Woolley (1880), Sandford Fleming (1827), Paul Scofield (1922), Lynn Redgrave (1943), and Bernie Taupin (1950). After him are Neil Tennant (1954), Michael Anderson (1920), Jeffrey Archer (1940), John Dollond (1706), Albert Ketèlbey (1875), and Matthew Festing (1949).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United Kingdom

Among astronomers born in United Kingdom, Jeremiah Horrocks ranks 29. Before him are Williamina Fleming (1857), William Robert Brooks (1844), Margaret Burbidge (1919), N. R. Pogson (1829), Edward L. G. Bowell (1943), and Francis Baily (1774). After him are James Ferguson (1797), David Gill (1843), John Bevis (1695), Cyril Jackson (1903), George Mary Searle (1839), and Nevil Maskelyne (1732).

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