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Lancashire Pioneers - Jeremiah Horrocks

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1543  Copernicus published his treatise on the solar system, propounding the view that the planets, including earth, circled the sun. It was banned by the Roman Catholic Church.
1609  Kepler defined 2 of his planetary laws of motion, on which much of Newton's work later depended.
1610  Galileo discovered Saturn's rings, Jupiter's moons, and sunspots.
1616  Galileo was banned by the church from further scientific work.
1619? Birth of Jeremiah Horrocks.
1632  Horrocks studied at Cambridge until 1635.
1633  Galileo taken before the Inquisition for not obeying the decree of 1616.
1635  Horrocks met William Crabtree.
1639  Horrocks moved to Hoole as curate, and predicted and observed the transit of Venus.
1641  Death of Horrocks on 3rd January.
1642  Birth of Isaac Newton.
1660  The Royal Society founded.
1662  Publication of Horrocks' Venus in sole visa.
1678  Publication of his papers by John Wallis as Opera posthuma.
1682  Halley observed, and predicted future return of, a comet.
1761  Mikhail Lomonosov discovered that Venus has an atmosphere.
1768  Captain James Cook sailed to Tahiti in the Endeavour.
 

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