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A star among star-gazers
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A star among star-gazers THE TRANSIT OF VENUS: THE BRIEF, BRILLIANT LIFE OF JEREMIAH HORROCKS by Peter Aughton Weidenfeld, £18.99, pp. 210, ISBN 02978472IX
Jeremiah Horrocks is more famous this week than at any time since his death in 1641. Horrocks was the first man accurately to predict and observe a transit of Venus: a rare astronomical event during which Venus passes directly between the Earth and the Sun. These transits, like buses, come in widely separated pairs. After a gap of ...
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Book reviews: THE TRANSIT OF VENUS: True star of astronomy who saw the moon fall and Venus cross the sun
Scotland on Sunday
; THE TRANSIT OF VENUS Peter Aughton Weidenfeld & Nicolson, GBP 18.99 ON TUESDAY morning, Venus will pass in front of the sun. Such transits are nowhere near as spectacular as eclipses, but they are considerably more rare. In fact, this week's event will only be the sixth ever to be observed by
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 "Daily Post (Liverpool, England)")
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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)
Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
; 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
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 "The Independent (London, England)")
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Books: A bright planet, but a dark star; The Transit of Venus By Peter Aughton WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON pounds 18.99 (210pp) pounds 17.99 (free p&p per order) from 0870 079 8897.(Features)
The Independent (London, England)
; Byline: John Gribbin Jeremiah Horrocks's claim to fame is that, in 1639, he was the first person to observe a transit of Venus. These rare events occur in pairs at intervals of more than 100 years, when Venus passes across the face of the Sun as seen from Earth. The next one is due on Tuesday 8
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Britons able to watch Venus crossing Sun for first time since 1283.(News)
The Independent (London, England)
; Byline: Steve Connor Science Editor CHILDREN WILL join amateur and professional astronomers to witness one of the rarest events seen from Britain -the planet Venus moving across the face of the Sun. So-called transits occur when the complex orbits of the Earth and Venus around the Sun result in all
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 "The Daily Mail (London, England)")
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VENUS FEVER; Tomorrow morning the skies will reveal one of the rarest and most dazzling of all astronomical spectacles as Venus passes across the face of the Sun. Here, we tell the fascinating story of the eccentric British genius who first predicted it . . .
The Daily Mail (London, England)
; Byline: MICHAEL HANLON AS THAT bright November day dawned, there was no sign that one of the most momentous events in the history of astronomy was about to take place. Only two men knew what was about to happen and for one of them, it would ensure his place in history. A few weeks earlier, Jeremiah
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Mission to the Earth's twin: A_Z of VENUS.(News)
The Independent (London, England)
; A is for atmosphere, which on Venus is a dense, suffocating mix of carbon dioxide and clouds of sulphuric acid. Atmospheric pressure on Venus is 90 times greater than on Earth. The Venusian air is hot, acrid and gloomy. Hidden under this thick blanket of gas is a rocky landscape shaped and moulded
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Acting in tongues Jane Horrocks is a British character actor with a star's voice
The Boston Globe
; Jane Horrocks's voice may be soft, but it's got character. And the quality of a chicken, according to animation directors who have cast the petite English actress as a chicken in three separate projects. They must have heard a fowl tone in the rustic Lancashire accent that Horrocks has refused to
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 "Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)")
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HORROCKS BIG MAKES NOISE WITH `LITTLE VOICE'.(Spotlight)
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
; Byline: Robert Denerstein British actress Jane Horrocks isn't a household name, yet she's one of the few actresses I've ever met who has had a play written expressly for her. In 1994, Horrocks starred in Jim Cartwright's The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, which has been made into a movie by
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Media: A man who likes to live dangerously Paul Horrocks, editor of the Manchester Evening News, has come into the spotlight over the release of James Bulger's killers and his paper's treatment of the story Here, Ian Herbert looks at his career; and David Lister sees more problems in the press coverage last weekend
The Independent - London
; ... Horrocks, editor of the Manchester Evening News, can justifiably curse the timing, four ... in 85,000 copies of the paper before the News of the World and The Mail on Sunday successfully ... Horrocks is a former MEN crime reporter and news editor with a reputation for picking out ...
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Media: A man who likes to live dangerously; Paul Horrocks, editor of the Manchester Evening News, has come into the spotlight over the release of James Bulger's killers and his paper's treatment of the story Here, Ian Herbert looks at his career; and David Lister sees more problems in the press coverage last weekend.(Features)
The Independent (London, England)
; ... Horrocks, editor of the Manchester Evening News, can justifiably curse the timing, four ... in 85,000 copies of the paper before the News of the World and The Mail on Sunday successfully ... Horrocks is a former MEN crime reporter and news editor with a reputation for picking out ...
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