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Conjectures and reputations: The composition and reception of James Bradley's paper on the aberration of light with some reference to a third unpublished version

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In January 1729 a paper written by James Bradley was read at two meetings of the Royal Society. On a newly discovered motion of the fixed stars, later described as the theory of the aberration of light, it was to transform the science of astrometry. The paper ... ...