Letter, from James Bradley to Edmond Halley

Reference number: EL/B3/13

Date: 01 January 1728

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Autograph letter with an account of the motion of fixed stars
Observations made across the whole year and then analysed with mathematical formulae
Tables and figures attached
Read to the Royal Society on 9 January 1728
Transcribed in 'Philosophical Transactions', vol 35, no 406, p 637

Reference number: EL/B3/13
Earliest possible date: 01 January 1728
Page extent: 26 pages
Format: Manuscript
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James Bradley, Letter, from James Bradley to Edmond Halley, 01 January 1728, EL/B3/13, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_b3_13/letter-from-james-bradley-to-edmond-halley, accessed on 17 January 2025

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IV. 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 External link, opens in new tab.

Date: 31st December 1728

DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1727.0064

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'Early letters': letters from correspondents in natural philosophy sent to the Royal Society and its Fellows
1613-1740 Reference number: EL
Early Letters B3
1728-1739 Reference number: EL/B3

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Edmond Halley
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