Berry, Arthur,b. 1862 · London, J. Murray · leaf 329
sult privately to Maupertuis (§ 221), with whom he had 268 A Short History of Astronomy [Ch. x. had some scientific correspondence. Maupertuis appearsto have told others, but Bradley himself waited patientlyfor the completion of the period which he regarded asnecessary for the satisfactory… … Fig. 77—Precession and nutation. could be accounted for by supposing that, on the onehand, the distance of the pole from the ecliptic fluctu-ated, and that, on the other, the precessional motion ofthe pole was not uniform, but varied slightly in speed.John Machin (? -1751), one of the best English…
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