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Jeremiah Horrocks
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.
His early death and
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Early life.
George James Gibbs was born in London in 1866. He was educated at Bedford Modern School, where he was head boy, and afterwards won an engineering scholarship to the City and Guilds of London Institute. Gibbs had an enduring love of astronomy from his school days, something that