James Bradley (English Wikipedia)
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- Kennett, Carolyn (2015). "An Astronomer's Summer Outing to the Lizard, Cornwall, 1769". The Antiquarian Astronomer. 9. Society for the History of Astronomy: 4–13. Bibcode:2015AntAs...9....4K.
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- Bradley was buried at the parish church in Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire. See Stratford, Joseph (1887). Gloucestershire Biographical Notes. Gloucester: "Journal" Office. p. 109.
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- Bradley, James (1728). "A Letter from the Reverend Mr. James Bradley Savilian Professor of Astronomy at Oxford, and F.R.S. to Dr. Edmond Halley Astronom. Reg. &c. Giving an Account of a New Discovered Motion of the Fix'd Stars". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. 35: 637–661. On pp. 646–647 Bradley explains how the finite speed of light causes distant stars to appear to move along an elliptical orbit. On p. 653 he presents his estimate of the speed of light.
- Bradley, James (1748). "A letter to the Right honourable George Earl of Macclesfield concerning an apparent motion observed in some of the fixed stars". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. 45 (485): 1–43.
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- Histoire de l'astronomie au dix-huitième siècle, p. 413 (edited by Claude-Louis Mathieu, and published by Bachelier, Paris, 1827). See also pp. xvii and 420.
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- Hirshfeld, Alan (2007). "Bradley, James". In Hockey, Thomas; Trimble, Virginia; Williams, Thomas R. (eds.). Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. New York: Springer Publishing. pp. 161–162. Bibcode:2007bea..book.....H. doi:10.1007/978-0-387-30400-7. ISBN 978-0-387-31022-0.
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- Hirshfeld, Alan (2007). "Bradley, James". In Hockey, Thomas; Trimble, Virginia; Williams, Thomas R. (eds.). Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. New York: Springer Publishing. pp. 161–162. Bibcode:2007bea..book.....H. doi:10.1007/978-0-387-30400-7. ISBN 978-0-387-31022-0.
- Kennett, Carolyn (2015). "An Astronomer's Summer Outing to the Lizard, Cornwall, 1769". The Antiquarian Astronomer. 9. Society for the History of Astronomy: 4–13. Bibcode:2015AntAs...9....4K.
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- Williams, Mari E. W. "Bradley, James (bap. 1692, d. 1762)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004. Online ed. Ed. Lawrence Goldman. Oct. 2009. 18 Nov. 2015 <http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/3187>.
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- Rawlinson, Caroline (1988). "Royal Star Gazer Was a Pupil". History of Westwood's Grammar School. Westwood's Grammar School Group. Retrieved 24 October 2013.
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- A Letter from the Reverend Mr. James Bradley Savilian Professor of Astronomy at Oxford, and F.R.S. to Dr. Edmond Halley Astronom. Reg. &c. Giving an Account of a New Discovered Motion of the Fix'd Stars. Philosophical Transactions 35 (406), no. 1727: 637–61.
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- One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Bradley, James". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 4 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 373.
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- Vickery, Bruce (2020). "James Bradley and others - fact checked!". Astronomical Society of Edinburgh. Retrieved 28 June 2020.