Antique c1850 engraving, James Bradley. James Bradley (1693-1762) was an English astronomer and priest and served as Astronomer Royal from 1742. He is best known for two fundamental discoveries in astronomy, the aberration of light (1725–1728), and the nutation of the Earth's axis (1728–1748). SOURCE: ORIGINAL ENGRAVING

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