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- W2023289324 abstract "When James Bradley was born 300 years ago, astronomy was by far the most advanced of the sciences, and set standards of both theory and practice which it was felt that natural history, chemistry and medicine should somehow emulate. Bradley, moreover, was born into the immediate post-Newtonian generation of the science, when astronomers were working out the consequences of the inverse-square law to investigate the orbits of the Moon and comets, determine the precise shape of the globe, and measure its mass. Principia , after all, contained several manifestos about how physics should work, and for more than a century after its publication in 1687, scientists were devising courses of observations that were intended to detect Newtonian criteria. Most of James Bradley’s professional life was spent in detecting and quantifying motions that were consequences of gravitation. James Bradley was born at Sherborne, Gloucestershire, in March 1693, though as the Parish records do not survive, we do not know upon which day in March. Popular tradition, however, ascribes it to the 23rd day of that month. 1 His father, William Bradley, was a man of modest means, though his mother, formerly Jane Pound, was sister of Dr James Pound, Rector of Wanstead, Essex, who was a leading amateur astronomer. Dr Pound recognized his nephew’s intellectual abilities, encouraged his interests in astronomy, and after James’s education at Northleach Grammar School, was probably instrumental in getting him to Balliol College, Oxford. 2" @default.
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- W2023289324 title "Pure research and practical teaching: the astronomical career of James Bradley, 1693-1762" @default.
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