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Created page with "== Boris de Zirkoff == '''{{Style S-Small capitals|Horrocks, Jeremiah}}'''. English astronomer, b. in 1619 at Toxteth Park, near Liverpool. Student at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 1832-35; then tutor at Toxteth, studying astronomy in his spare time. He calculated that, contrary to the prediction in Kepler's Rudolphine Tables, a transit of Venus would occur on November 24 (old style), 1639. This was a Sunday, and Horrocks, acting at the time as curate o..."
