Džeremaja Horoks

Džeremaja Horoks
Horoks tokom posmatranja venerinog tranzita iz 1639.
Lični podaci
Datum rođenja	1618.
Mesto rođenja	Liverpul, Engleska
Datum smrti	3. januar 1641.(1641-01-03) (22/23 god.)
Mesto smrti	Liverpul, Engleska
Obrazovanje	Emmanuel College
Naučni rad
Polje	astronomija matematika mehanika
Poznat po	Venerini tranziti Plima i oseka Eliptične orbite Orbite prirodnih satelita

Džeremaja Horoks (engl. Jeremiah Horrocks; lat. Jeremiah Horrox; rođen 1618. u Liverpulu, preminuo 3. januara 1641. u Liverpulu) bio je engleski astronom i matematičar. Bio je jedan od prvih naučnika koji je demonstrativno pokazao okretanje Meseca oko Zemlje eliptičnom orbitom i jedina osoba koja je ispravno predvidela tranzit planete Venere preko sunčevog diska 1639. godine. Smatra se jednim od osnivača britanske astronomije.

Jedan krater na Mesecu je nazvan po njemu Horoks.

Vidi još

• Venerini tranziti
• Venerin tranzit 1639.

Literatura

• Aughton, Peter The Transit of Venus: The Brief, Brilliant Life of Jeremiah Horrocks, Father of British Astronomy. . London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 2004. ISBN 978-0-297-84721-2. .
• Applebaum, W.; Hatch (1983). Hatch, R. A.. „Boulliau Mercator and Horrocks Venus in Sole Visa - Three Unpublished Letters”. Journal for the History of Astronomy. 14 (3): 166—179. Bibcode:1983JHA....14..166A. 
• Chapman, Allan (1990). „Jeremiah Horrocks, the transit of Venus, and the 'New Astronomy' in early seventeenth-century England”. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society. 31: 333—357. Bibcode:1990QJRAS..31..333C. 
• Chapman, Allan (2004). „Transit of Venus: Horrocks, Crabtree and the 1639 transit of Venus”. Astronomy & Geophysics. 45 (5): 5—31. Bibcode:2004A&G....45e..26C. doi:10.1046/j.1468-4004.2003.45526.x. 
• Hughes, David W. (2005). „Horrocks's bogus law”. Astronomy & Geophysics. 46 (1): 14—16. Bibcode:2005A&G....46a..14H. doi:10.1046/j.1468-4004.2003.46114.x. 
• Maor, Eli (2000). Venus in Transit. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-11589-4. 
• Sheehan, William (2004). The Transits of Venus. Westfall, John. Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books. ISBN 978-1-59102-175-9. 
• Whatton, Arundell Blount (1875). Memoir of the Life and Labors of the Rev. Jeremiah Horrox. London: William Hunt and Company. 
• Applebaum, Wilbur (2012). Venus Seen on the Sun: The First Observation of a Transit of Venus by Jeremiah Horrocks. Leiden & Boston: Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-22193-2.