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life-work of an astronomer was doubled.
Jeremiah Horrocks (born 1619, died 1641)
was an ardent admirer of Tycho Brahe and
Kepler, and was able to improve the Rudol-
phine tables so much that he foretold a tran-
sit of Venus, in 1639, which these tables
failed to indicate, and was the only observer
of it. His life was short, but he accom-
plished a great deal, and rightly ascribed
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