Horrocks — may refer to the following people: * Jeremiah Horrocks (c. 1618–1641), English astronomer * John Horrocks (1768–1804), British cotton manufacturer * John Horrocks (1816 1881), British born resident in Weimar, army officer, author, inventor,… … Wikipedia
Horrocks — [ hɔrəks], Họrrox, Horrocius, Jeremiah, englischer Astronom, * in der County Lancashire um 1619, ✝ Toxteth Park (heute zu Liverpool) 13. 1. 1641. Horrocks beobachtete 1639 einen von ihm selbst vorherberechneten Venusdurchgang (»Venus in Sole… … Universal-Lexikon
Horrocks Fold — is a small hamlet to the south of Belmont, near Bolton, Greater Manchester, England.Originally a farm and collection of barns and outbuildings, the site was sympathetically converted to private residences in the early 1980s.Horrocks Fold is… … Wikipedia
Horrocks , Jeremiah — (1619–1641) English astronomer Little is known about the early life of Horrocks (or Horrox) other than that he was born into a Puritan family in Toxteth, Liverpool, and was admitted to Cambridge in 1632. Even though he died ‘in his twenty second… … Scientists
Horrocks (crater) — lunar crater data latitude=4.0 N or S=S longitude=5.9 E or W=E diameter=30 km depth=3.0 km colong=355 eponym=Jeremiah HorrocksHorrocks is a lunar impact crater located entirely within the eroded northeast rim of the much larger Hipparchus walled… … Wikipedia
Horrocks-Mumford bundle — In algebraic geometry, a branch of mathematics, the Horrocks–Mumford bundleis an indecomposable rank 2 vector bundle on 4 dimensional projective space P 4 named after Geoffrey Horrocks and David Mumford.It is the only such bundle known, although… … Wikipedia
Horrocks, Jeremiah — ▪ British astronomer Horrocks also spelled Horrox born c. 1617, , Toxteth Park, near Liverpool [now in Merseyside], Eng. died Jan. 3, 1641, Toxteth Park British astronomer and clergyman who applied Johannes Kepler s laws of planetary… … Universalium
Horrocks, General Sir Brian — 1895–1985 Field Marshal MONTGOMERY felt that Horrocks was one of the best Corps Commanders available for World War II and appointed him to command XIII Corps in the Battles of Alam Halfa and Alamein in the Western Desert. He accompanied… … Who’s Who in World War Two
Horrocks — /ˈhɒrəks/ (say horuhks) noun John Ainsworth, 1818–46, Australian pioneer explorer and pastoralist, born in England; first person to use camels for exploration in Australia …
HORROCKS, JEREMIAH — a celebrated astronomer, born at Toxteth, near Liverpool; passed through Cambridge, took orders, and received the curacy of Hoole, Lancashire; was devoted to astronomy, and was the first to observe the transit of Venus, of which he gave an… … The Nuttall Encyclopaedia
