When did the English astronomer born in 1618 demonstrate that the moon moved around the earth?
Jeremiah Horrocks Jeremiah Horrocks (1618 – 3 January 1641), sometimes given as Jeremiah Horrox (the Latinised version that he used on the Emmanuel College register and in his Latin manuscripts), was an English astronomer. He was the first person to demonstrate that the Moon moved around the Earth in an elliptical orbit; and he was the only person to predict the transit of Venus of 1639, an event which he and his friend William Crabtree were the only two people to observe and record.
Jacob Heinrich Wilhelm Lehmann Jacob Heinrich Wilhelm Lehmann (3 January 1800 – 17 July 1863) was a German astronomer. He is most noted today as the namesake for the crater Lehmann on the Moon.