Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Jeremiah Horrocks (1618 – 3 January 1641), ... 0.63 AU) was far from the 150 million kilometres (93 million miles) known today, but it was more accurate than any ...
Jeremiah Horrocks (1618 – 3 January 1641) [3] was born in Lower Lodge, Toxteth Park – now part of Liverpool but at that time a separate town. His father James was a watchmaker, and his mother Mary Aspinwall was from a notable Toxteth Park family. [6]
3 January – Jeremiah Horrocks, astronomer (born c. 1618) 6 April (bur.) – Thomas Nabbes, dramatist (born 1605) 13 April – Richard Montagu, clergyman (born 1577) 12 May – Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, statesman, executed (born 1593) 5 July – Sir Simon Baskerville, royal physician (born 1574)
Peter Allen: Wallasey-born killer, ... Jeremiah Horrocks (1618–1641): astronomer, first person to accurately predict the transit of Venus [50]
The history of tidal measurements taken at Liverpool starts with Jeremiah Horrocks (1619–1641) who was born and died at Toxteth.While he is most famous for predicting, and then observing, the transit of Venus in 1639 at Much Hoole near Preston, he also had a great interest in understanding ocean tides, and in particular in verifying that tidal changes were closely related to variations in ...
On Jan. 17, 1945, Mahoney was killed amid the fighting. His body could not be recovered, and the War Department issued a "Finding of Death" a year later. U.S. Army Pvt. Jeremiah P. Mahoney.
Collins was a three-star recruit in the class of 2023.
2024 – At least 91 people are killed in bombings in Kerman, Iran, ... 1641 – Jeremiah Horrocks, English astronomer and mathematician (b. 1618) [272]