James Bradley (1692-1762) English astronomer,born at Sherborne,near Cheltenham,Gloucestershire. Appointed Savilian professor of astronomy at Oxford (1721). As third Astronomer Royal (1742-1762) he followed Edmond Halley as director of the Royal Greenwich Observatory. Bradley discovered the aberration of light. From The Gallery of Portraits,Vol VI,by Charles Knight (London,1836). Engraving | |
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