|
|||||
|
|
Horrocks, Crabtree and the 1639 transit of Venus |
|
| Authors: | Allan Chapman |
| Institution: | Historian of science at Wadham College, Oxford. |
| Abstract: | Now the deserved scientific and media excitement of the 2004 transit of Venus has passed, Allan Chapman offers a brief account of the career of Jeremiah Horrocks, who predicted and observed the 1639 transit. |
| Keywords: | |