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Hoole, Lancashire
Mathematical Gazetteer of the British Isles
Jeremiah Horrocks (or Horrox) (1618?-1641) corrected Kepler's calculations and predicted the transit of Venus across the sun on 24 Nov 1639. Curate of Hoole, or Much Hoole, about 8 miles SW of Preston, he may also have been tutor at Carr House nearby. In the late afternoon of Sunday, 24 November, he made the first ever observation of a transit of Venus from Carr House (from the centre window above the porch, according to tradition), while his correspondent William Crabtree observed it briefly at Broughton, near Manchester.
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Thanks to an enthusiastic 19th Century rector, Hoole Church has a memorial chapel and its east window shows the sun with a symbol representing Venus.
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Thanks to an enthusiastic 19th Century rector, Hoole Church has a memorial chapel and its east window shows the sun with a symbol representing Venus.
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The Mathematical Gazetteer of the British Isles was created by David Singmaster.
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The original site is at THIS LINK.