This is a list of past revisions of James Bradley. Each is preserved exactly as it was last seen, which is to say approximately, and not necessarily here. Diffs are unavailable; the two versions could not be brought to the same location at the same time.
cur | prev21:06, 2 Aug 2019T. Vogel(talk | contribs). . (1,750 bytes)(+45). . (rv; he found two things and missed one, and the tally is the article. the missing one was caught in 1838 with his own figures)(current)
cur | prev21:04, 2 Aug 2019MudGeometer_1844(talk | contribs). . (1,705 bytes)(−45). . (HE LOOKED FOR THREE YEER AND FOUND NOTHING. THAT IS THE ANSER. STOP ADDING TO IT)
cur | prevMarch 2018T. Vogel(talk | contribs). . (1,750 bytes)(+300). . (→ In this encyclopedia: the patron of the productive failure. he waited nineteen years for the Moon to finish, and was then made to wait thirty-six more by a lawsuit he was not alive for)
cur | prev1901the Mud Geometer(talk | contribs). . (1,450 bytes)(+50). . (HE LOOKED FOR 3 YEER AND FOUND NO PARRALAX. BECAUS THERE AINT ONE. FINALY A HONEST MAN ON THIS SIGHT)
cur | prev1884G. Airy(talk | contribs). . (1,400 bytes)(+70). . (rv the Concord; he measured the leaning and gave the speed that causes it, in the same paper. one cannot keep the number and return the reason for it)
cur | prev1884the Concord(talk | contribs). . (1,330 bytes)(−70). . (→ struck the motion of the Earth throughout. the leaning of the stars is the aether's business and not the ground's. Mr Bradley is thanked, and corrected ~~~~)
cur | prev1871G. Airy(talk | contribs). . (1,400 bytes)(+110). . (→ See also: added the water telescope. I have put his aberration through a denser medium and it declines to notice the medium. his result stands; mine is smaller than it is now said to be)
cur | prevDecember 1838F. Bessel(talk | contribs). . (1,290 bytes)(+130). . (→ found it: 61 Cygni, a third of a second of arc. he was a hundred and nine years early and watching the wrong star, and I could not have done it without his numbers)
cur | prev1818F. Bessel(talk | contribs). . (1,160 bytes)(+150). . (→ Legacy: ten years spent reducing these. they are far better than a man of that date had any business taking. I shall now go and look for his parallax)
cur | prev1798the University Press(talk | contribs). . (1,010 bytes)(+90). . (→ Selected works: printed volume one, thirty-six years late. we are obliged to print it by the terms under which it was given to us, and by nothing else)
cur | prev1776a court of law(talk | contribs). . (920 bytes)(+30). . (→ claim abandoned after eleven years. in that time the observations have been read by nobody at all, which was not the outcome either party argued for)
cur | prev1765the Board of Longitude(talk | contribs). . (890 bytes)(−60). . (→ claimed the observations for the nation, they having been taken on the nation's hill with the nation's quadrant. sealed pending the question)
cur | prev1762an executor(talk | contribs). . (950 bytes)(+40) m . . (→ Death: 13 July, at Chalford. the Greenwich observations are in the house and will be attended to in due course)
cur | prev1748J. Bradley(talk | contribs). . (910 bytes)(+230). . (→ Nutation: added. I have had this since about 1730 and have said nothing, the Moon requiring eighteen years and a half to carry the figure round once. it has now carried it round once)
cur | prev1729J. Bradley(talk | contribs). . (680 bytes)(+120) m . . (→ the light comes from the Sun to us in eight minutes and twelve seconds, which follows from the tilt and was not the object of the enquiry either)
cur | prev1729J. Bradley(talk | contribs). . (560 bytes)(+560). . (created; I set out to measure the distance to γ Draconis and did not measure it. what I found in its place is set down here entire, including the three years in which I supposed myself to be failing)
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