biography
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| (c.1618–41)
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| biography:
| Astronomer, born in Toxteth, Merseyside, NW England, UK. He studied at Cambridge, and was ordained in 1639. He was curate of Hoole, Lancashire, where he made the first recorded observation of the transit of Venus (24 Nov 1639, old dating style) which he had predicted. He showed the Moon's orbit to be approximately elliptical, and calculated an improved value for the solar parallax. |
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