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Jeremiah Horrocks was born at Lower Lodge Farm in Toxteth Park, a former royal deer park near Liverpool, Lancashire. [5] His father James had moved to Toxteth Park to be apprenticed to Thomas Aspinwall, a watchmaker, and subsequently married his master's daughter Mary.
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)
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 ...
Jeremiah Horrocks (1618–1641): astronomer, first person to accurately predict the transit of Venus [50] ... Cora Musk (born Mossley Hill 1923-2011): ...
January 3 – Jeremiah Horrocks, English astronomer (born 1618) March 8 – Xu Xiake, Chinese explorer and geographer (born 1587) July 5 – Simon Baskerville, English physician (born 1574) August 31 – Guy de La Brosse, French physician and botanist (born c. 1586)
A Surprise Confession. Realizing that Belly and Conrad aren’t going to be together, Jeremiah confesses his feelings to her and they kiss in the pool during season 1 episode 5.
1641 - Death of Jeremiah Horrocks, English astronomer (b. 1618) 1722 - Birth of Fredric Hasselquist, Swedish naturalist (d. 1752) 1810 - Birth of Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie, French geographer (d. 1897) 1819 - Birth of Charles Piazzi Smyth, Astronomer Royal for Scotland (d. 1900)