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En ocasiones ha sido confundido con el juez Thomas Street (1626-1696). Biografía [ editar ] Según la obra "Brief Lives" (Vidas Breves) de su contemporáneo John Aubrey , Street nació en Castle Lyons (Irlanda) el 5 de marzo de 1621, y murió "en Chanon-row (vulgarmente Channel-rowe) en Westminster , el 17 de agosto de 1689, y está enterrado allí, en el patio de la iglesia de new chapell".
Known for. Transit of Venus. Scientific career. Fields. Astronomy. Mathematics. William Crabtree (1610–1644) was an English astronomer, mathematician, and merchant from Broughton, then in the Hundred of Salford, Lancashire, England. He was one of only two people to observe and record the first predicted transit of Venus in 1639 .
Influenciado. Isaac Newton , John Flamsteed. Thomas Street (también escrito Streete ) (1621-1689) fue un astrónomo inglés , conocido por sus escritos sobre movimientos celestes. A veces se le ha confundido con el juez Thomas Street, que vivió entre 1626 y 1696. La calle del cráter de la Luna lleva su nombre.
Thomas Cooke was born in Allerthorpe, near Pocklington, East Riding of Yorkshire, the son of James Cook (a shoemaker). [1] [3] [4] [5] His formal education consisted of two years at an elementary school (possibly the school of John Whitaker, also of Allerthorpe), [3] but he continued learning after this and he taught himself navigation and astronomy with the intention of becoming a sailor.
Carter Observatory. Thomas King took over the charge of the Carter Observatory in 1887 from the Reverend Arthur Stock, vicar of St Peters (former astronomer in charge of the Wellington time-ball station on Lambton House Quay). King has an astronomical observatory facility named after him at Carter Observatory in Wellington, New Zealand.
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Thomas Lowndes (astronomer) Thomas Lowndes (1692 – 12 May 1748) was the founder of the Lowndean professorship of astronomy at Cambridge University, England. Both his father and mother were Cheshire landowners. In 1725 he was appointed provost marshal of South Carolina, a post he preferred to hold by deputy. In 1727 Lowndes claimed to have ...
