James Bradley

Person · Open Library

Works

90

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United Kingdom

Active from

1974-02-05

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

745

Total plays

3,579

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews

   · 2021 · cited 84,879x

2. Special points for Brillouin-zone integrations

   · 1976 · cited 68,277x

3. Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis

   · 2012 · cited 66,823x

4. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

   · 2020 · cited 36,474x

5. Structural equation modeling in practice: A review and recommended two-step approach.

   · 1988 · cited 31,710x

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Quotes

• “I give all my printed books to Samuel Peach, son of Samuel Peach, in my Will named, and desire that this may be a codicil to my last Will and Testament, and taken as part thereof, as witness my hand, this third day of December. in the year of our Lord 1761.”
• “For common purposes we may without sensible error suppose the earth's motion equable and neglect the corrections, and then the rule for the parallax of will be this:Sine lat. : rad. : : cotang. A : cotang. C, or rad : sine lat. : : tang. A : tang. C; then long. star \mp C = long. of λ.Cosine C : cosine A : : semi transverse axis : z.And cosine decl. cosine (ʘ - λ) :: z : x = parallax of right ascension.”
• “Dr. James Bradley was the third son of William and Jane Bradley, and was born at Sherborne in Dorsetshire in the year 1692.He was fitted for the university at North Leach [at] a boarding school... and from [there] he was sent to Oxford.”
• “About the fame time the chair of at Oxford became vacant, by the death of the celebrated Dr. Keil; and Mr. Bradley was elected to succeed him on the 31st of October 1721, being then just nine and twenty years old; and his colleague was Mr. Halley, who was professor of Geometry on the same foundation.”
• “Bradley, upon his being elected into this professorship, gave up both his livings, and with great joy quitted a situation in which his duty was directly opposite to his inclination.From this time he applied himself wholly to the study of his favourite science, and in the year 1727, he published his theory of the aberration of the fixed stars, which is allowed to be one of the most useful and ingenious discoveries of modern astronomy.”
• “Such is the ingenious Theory of the Aberration, which Mr. Bradley published in the year 1727, and which was received by the whole learned world with the applause that it merited. M. Clairaut, of the acedemy of sciences at Paris, afterwards made this discovery the subject of a Memoir, which he printed in 1737: In this Memoir, he examines the principles on which the Theory of the Aberration is founded, and gives the necessary rules for putting it in practice.”

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Key facts

Born

September 1692, Sherborne , Gloucestershire , England

Died

13 July 1762 (1762-07-13) (aged 69), Chalford , Gloucestershire , England

Alma mater

Balliol College, Oxford

Known for

Aberration of light Astronomer Royal

Children

1 daughter

Awards

Copley Medal (1748)

Fields

Astronomy

Institutions

University of Oxford Ashmolean Museum

Religion

Christianity ( Anglican )

Church

Church of England

Ordained

24 May 1719 (deacon) c. July 1719 (priest)

Preceded by

Edmond Halley

Succeeded by

Nathaniel Bliss

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