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Jeremiah Horrocks was born at Lower Lodge Farm in Toxteth Park near Liverpool, Lancashire. His father James worked as a watchmaker and married the daughter of his master Thomas Aspinwall. Both families were well educated Puritans who held unorthodox beliefs for their time.
Jeremiah Horrocks died suddenly from unknown causes on the 3rd of January 1641. He was age 22 when death occurred. He returned to Toxteth Park sometime in mid-1640 before his sudden passing.
Jeremiah Horrocks was the first to demonstrate that the Moon moved in an elliptical path around the Earth. He posited that comets followed elliptical orbits as well. He anticipated Isaac Newton in suggesting influence of Sun as well as Earth on Moon's orbit.
Horrocks made simple helioscope by focusing image of Sun through telescope onto plane surface. From Much Hoole location he calculated transit would begin at approximately 3:00 pm on the 24th of November 1639 Julian calendar. Weather was cloudy but he first observed tiny black shadow of Venus crossing Sun at about 3:15 pm.
Horrocks is remembered on plaque in Westminster Abbey and lunar crater named after him. In 1859 marble tablet and stained-glass windows commemorating him were installed in Parish Church of St Michael Much Hoole. Toxteth Unitarian Chapel contains memorial plaque commemorating achievements.