Search Type
  • All
  • Subject
  • Title
  • Author
  • Publisher
  • Series Title
Search Title

Download

Robert Stawell Ball - Great Astronomers: James Bradley

Robert Stawell Ball - Great Astronomers: James Bradley( )
Author: Stawell Ball, Robert
ISBN:978-1-5411-6706-3
Publication Date:Dec 2016
Publisher:CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $9.98
Book Description:

James Bradley (1693-1762) was the English astronomer who served as Astronomer Royal from 1742, succeeding Edmund Halley. 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). These discoveries were called "the most brilliant and useful of the century" by Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, historian of astronomy, mathematical astronomer and director of the Paris Observatory, in his history of...
More Description

Book Details
Pages:32
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6 x 9 x 0.08 Inches
Book Weight:0.22 Pounds



Featured Books

Meditations
Aurelius Marcus
Hardback: $72.00
Sense and Sensibility
Austen, Jane
Hardback: $17.00
The Odyssey
Homer
Hardback: $17.95

Rate this title:

Select your rating below then click 'submit'.






I do not wish to rate this title.