The transit of Venus : the brief, brilliant life of Jeremiah Horrocks, father of British astronomy / Peter Aughton.

Brief, brilliant life of Jeremiah Horrocks

London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004.

xiii, 210 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, genealogical tables, map ; 22 cm

"A Windrush Press book."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-204) and index.

The royal society -- Toxteth -- Cambridge -- Astronomy before Horrocks -- Horrocks studies the heavens -- Gravitation and mechanics -- Transit of Venus -- The parallax of the sun -- The motion of the moon -- War -- Opera Posthuma -- Towards posterity.