Džeremaja Horoks
енглески астроном
Džeremaja Horoks (engl. Jeremiah Horrocks; lat. Jeremiah Horrox; rođen 1618. u Liverpulu, preminuo 3. januara 1641. u Liverpulu) bio je engleski astronom i matematičar.[1] 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.[2] Smatra se jednim od osnivača britanske astronomije.
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Datum rođenja | 1618. |
Mesto rođenja | Liverpul, Engleska |
Datum smrti | 3. januar 1641.22/23 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 |
Vidi još
urediReference
uredi- ^ „Jeremiah Horrocks | British astronomer | Britannica”. www.britannica.com (na jeziku: engleski). Pristupljeno 2023-01-28.
- ^ „Jeremiah Horrocks - Biography”. Maths History (na jeziku: engleski). Pristupljeno 2023-01-28.
- ^ „Jeremiah Horrocks | Encyclopedia.com”. www.encyclopedia.com. Pristupljeno 2023-01-28.
Literatura
uredi- 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 „Boulliau Mercator and Horrocks Venus in Sole Visa - Three Unpublished Letters”.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.