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Get ready to watch the Transit of Venus

not be another until the 22nd century, when most of us will not be there. And remember the role of Salford and the entire north of England in the history of this great astronomical event

Next Wednesday, June 6, is not only the anniversary of D-Day. This is the last opportunity of the century to observe the transit of Venus, one of the rarest and most important of the main astronomy - and understandable -. Events

The planet Venus will be visible as a small black dot crossing the face of the sun, a process that allows experts to specify the location on the planet Earth between galaxies and our solar system. This happens twice in eight years every 120 years or so, and this is the second pair. The first of these was the June 8, 2004.

And shining glory Salford. Look what the playwright Eric Northey found when I walked in Lower Broughton in Salford. This plate.

It commemorates the 17th century some knowledge of the region, William Crabtree, who was also an amateur astronomer. He and a friend, Jeremiah Horrocks, were the first two people to observe the transit of Venus in 1639, after he was quoted as would occur. As Northey said:

was a huge success for Salford over 400 years ago, in what was a village in an obscure part of North Lancashire. I asked myself how the tables Crabtree support Kepler, published in 1632, so you can do the math to observe the transit

And, of course, correct Kepler, who also predicted the phenomenon, but we had a bad year.


Northey was so intrigued by the research council decided Crabtree life and that of his partner, Jeremiah Horrocks, both classified as "giants" on whose shoulders modestly Sir Isaac Newton said he had to make their own discoveries that change the world. From this research, he wrote a piece called

Transit of Venus

the first theater festival in the 24/7 July fringe Manchester.

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Crabtree allowed him to travel throughout Europe, which is probably how he got a copy of Tablas de Keppler. Interestingly, the North West of England at the time was also a hotbed of scientific discoveries. These should be checked. As Northey said:

You do not know from reading the history of science in Britain that this region was a center of the enclave of astronomical discoveries. Four great astronomers lived there. Townley in Burnley, Gascoyne Leeds, Preston Horrocks and Crabtree in Salford.



Crabtree and Horrocks were educated men, both could read and speak Latin, it was important to communicate with other scientists across Europe. But the chaos of the Spanish Civil War in the next decade means that much information on them is lost, and his discovery of the transit of Venus was not published until the 1680s.

Northey decided to write a historical drama about Crabtree because so little is known about him:


is a major problem even today: why do people who believe in a religion want to kill those who have a different faith? Discovery Crabtree were also considered heresy. Standing against the conventional wisdom at the time may have cost lives and Horrocks.



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