Berry, Arthur,b. 1862 · London, J. Murray · leaf 318
is professorship at Oxford, and continued tomake observations at Wansted at least up till 1747. 207. The discovery of aberration resulted from an attemptto detect the parallactic displacement of stars which shouldresult from the annual motion of the earth. Ever sincethe Coppernican controversy had… … [To /are p. 258. § 207] Bradley: Aberratmi 259 on the minds of observing astronomers, many of whom hadtried to detect the motion in question, and some of whom(including the universal claimant Hooke) professed tohave succeeded. Actually, however, all previous attemptshad been failures, and Bradley…
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