Great Astronomers: James Bradley

Great Astronomers: James Bradley

Robert Stawell Ball

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ISBN9789635266630

James Bradley (1693–1762) was the English astronomer who served as Astronomer Royal from 1742, succeeding Edmund Halley. He is best known for two fundamental discoveries in astronomy, the aberration of light (1725–1728), and the nutation of the Earth's axis (1728–1748). These discoveries were called