A New Discovered Motion of the Fixed Stars by James Bradley

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Original letter to Edmond Halley, Philosophical Transactions 35, 637–661. The archive uses an old-style 1728 date; the work is also commonly dated 1729 in modern chronology. Cited for the observational and finite-light-speed explanation of annual stellar aberration.

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