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IT is now time to pass to the particular incident which has immortalised the name of Horrox, his observation of the transit of Venus over the sun's disc on November 24, 1639 (O.S.) It would have been sufficient for his renown to have been the first witness of the phenomenon, but he had in addition the honour of supplying an omission of Kepler's, who had indeed predicted the transit of 1631, but had failed to point out the occurrence of another eight years subsequently. The transit of 1631 had not been observed owing to its occurrence at night, and that of 1639 had been foreseen by no one save Horrox, and was watched by no one but himself and his friend Crabtree, whom he apprised of the forthcoming event in a letter dated on the October 26 previous.
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Jeremiah Horrox * . Nature 8, 137–138 (1873). https://doi.org/10.1038/008137a0
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