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April 13, 1664. Dr. Wallis gave his and Dr. Christopher Wren's judgment concerning three manuscripts of Mr. Horrox for the restitution of astronomy. Their joint opinion was that as to the English piece it would not be fit for publication, because t it contained only broken incoherent things, set down by the author only for his memory, as they came into his mind, and brought for the most part into the Latin in their proper places, and sometimes with retractations and alterations upon second thoughts of what he had at first set down in English. But they looked upon the Latin pieces as the beginning and attempt of an excellent work for the restitution of astronomy, and which served to shew, how great a loss it was that Mr. Horrox died so soon, since it appeared from this and that concerning his observation of Venus.
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Early Science at the Royal Society. Nature 113, 553 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/113553a0
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