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Taken from http://www.btinternet.com/~redlion/jerry.htm (especially
Section 5) -
Kepler had predicted a transit in 1631 (it occurred during the night in
Europe) and another in 1761. However, Jeremiah Horrocks realized
that, while over a century separates the orbital configurations
which produce the appearances, the transits themselves occur not
singly, but in a pair, eight years apart. Horrocks predicted and
observed the transit of Venus across the Sun's disk on November
24th, 1639 (December 6th on the modern calendar), in Lancashire.