History
1639 Transit
Links: 1639
1639 Transit
Links: 1639
Links: 1639
St. Michael & All Angels is the Parish Church of Hoole, England, with which Jeremiah Horrocks was affiliated.
St. Michael at Much Hoole is described with pictures.
http://www.venus-transit.de/1639/horrox.htm
Excerpts from Horrocks' transit of Venus publication, Venus in Sole Visa.
https://dlib.stanford.edu:6521/text1/dd-ill/transit-memoir.pdf
Memoir of the life and labours of Jeremiah Horrocks, by Rev. Arundell Blount Whatton; prefacing The Transit of Venus Over the Sun by Jeremiah Horrocks; 1639 (10.6 MB).
http://www.transit-of-venus.org.uk/conference/history.html#_ftnref18
http://www.transit-of-venus.org.uk/
http://www.transit-of-venus.org.uk/conference/history.html
History of Jeremiah Horrocks, by Paul Marston; extracted from course notes for Great Astronomers in History
Distance Learning course, Centre for Astrophysics; ©University of Central Lancashire. Text is thorough, but images are missing.
http://www.salford.gov.uk/venustransit.htm
William Crabtree, Venus Genius; from the Salford City Council.
