Jeremiah Horrocks The Transit of Venus

by Richard Pearson

In 1627, Johannes Kepler had published his Rudolphine Tables and two years later he published extracts from the tables in his pamphlet De raris mirisque Anni 1631 which included an admonitio ad astronomos (warning to astronomers) concerning a transit of Mercury in 1631 and transits of Venus in 1631 and 1761. Horrocks' own observations, combined with those of his friend and correspondent William Crabtree, had convinced him that Kepler's Rudolphine...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0244765219
• ISBN13: 9780244765217
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"