[2] Brewster’s Martyrs of Science.
[3] The transit occurred on a Sunday, and the ‘business of the highest importance’ to which Horrox alludes was his clerical duties.
[4] A fresco by the late Mr. Ford Maddox-Brown, depicting Crabtree observing the transit of Venus, adorns the interior of the Manchester Town Hall.
[5] William Crabtree died on August 1, 1644, aged 34 years.
[6] The constellation Virgo.
[7] Life of Galileo (Library of Useful Knowledge).
[8] Miss Clerke’s System of the Stars.
[9] Miss Clerke’s System of the Stars.
[10] Miss Clerke’s System of the Stars.
[11] Ibid.