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Excerpt from The Transit of Venus Across the Sun: A Translation of the Celebrated Discourse Thereupon The fame Of Horrox has also been disseminated through the instrumentality of the press, letters having occasionally appeared, complaining that no record of his discoveries has been published in our native tongue, and commending the subject to the attention of those competent to deal with it. One of these, taken from the columns of a newspaper, was, a few months ago, enclosed to me by a friend, in which the writer thus alludes to the remarks Of Professor Rigaud already quoted A life Of Horrox. Is much wanted. Very little is known indeed of his daily work, but that little is such as to create a desire of knowing as much about him as possible. The particulars gathered up by Mr. Whatton will, I trust, be heard of, and make us better acquainted with one whom Sir J. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.