1639 transit of Venus
The first known observations and recording of a transit of Venus were made in 1639 by the English astronomers Jeremiah Horrocks and his friend and correspondent William Crabtree. The pair made their observations independently on 4 December that year (24 November under the Julian calendar then used in England); Horrocks from Carr House, then in the village of Much Hoole, Lancashire, and Crabtree from his home in Broughton, near Manchester.
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1639 transit of Venus
The first known observations and recording of a transit of Venus were made in 1639 by the English astronomers Jeremiah Horrocks and his friend and correspondent William Crabtree. The pair made their observations independently on 4 December that year (24 November under the Julian calendar then used in England); Horrocks from Carr House, then in the village of Much Hoole, Lancashire, and Crabtree from his home in Broughton, near Manchester.
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英国天文学家杰雷米亚·霍罗克斯及其友人对于1639年金星凌日 ...... 霍罗克斯、克拉布特里以及他们的笔友被尊为英国天文学研究之父。
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英国天文学家杰雷米亚·霍罗克斯及其友人对于1639年金星凌日 ...... 霍罗克斯、克拉布特里以及他们的笔友被尊为英国天文学研究之父。
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1639年金星凌日
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Transit de Vénus de 1639
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