Miscellaneous Works and Correspondence: James Bradley's Stellar Aberration

Objections Against Earth’s Supposed Motion

“There appearing therefore after all no sensible parallax in the fixed stars, the Anti-Copernicans have still room on that account to object against the motion of the earth; and they may have (if they please) a much greater objection against the hypothesis by which I have endeavoured to solve the forementioned phenomena, by denying the progressive motion of light, as well as that of the earth.”

Bradley, James, 1693?-1762

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