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Transit of Venus

  • Jeremiah HorrocksJeremiah Horrocks was born at Lower Lodge Farm in Toxteth Park, a former royal deer park near Liverpool, Lancashire. His father James had moved to Toxteth…
  • Mikhail LomonosovIn 1730, a nineteen-year-old fisherman named Mikhail Lomonosov walked one hundred miles from his village of Mishaninskaya to the city of Moscow.