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From farm boy to cosmologist; A farm boy changed astronomy when he observed the Transit of Venus, which occurs again tomorrow. Peter Elson reports on an event which won't happen again until 2247.(News)
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Byline: Peter Elson
THERE is an old adage that talent will always out and this could not be more graphically illustrated than in the case of a Lancashire farmer's son,Jeremiah Horrocks.
Born in 1619,at Toxteth, Liverpool,his astonishing intelligence was swiftly recognised and at 14 he made the difficult journey to Cambridge University to continue his education.
By the time Horrocks was 23, he was dead and buried at the Ancient Chapel of Toxteth. But during the course of his short life,he changed the course of astronomy and created the foundations on which the science ...
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