Boxwood model to illustrate the aberration of light, discovered by James Bradley, the third Astronomer Royal, in 1728.

Made:
circa 1729 in Oxford
designer:
James Bradley
Boxwood model to illustrate the aberration of light discovered

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Boxwood model to illustrate the aberration of light discovered
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Boxwood model to illustrate the aberration of light discovered by James Bradley, the third Astronomer Royal, in 1728. Used by Bradley when giving his lecture on the subject at the Ashmolean Museum as Savilian Professor of Astronomy at Oxford, c.1729.

Details

Category:
Astronomy
Object Number:
1876-1029
Materials:
boxwood, cotton, metal and complete
Measurements:
overall (estimate): 50 x 200 x 100 mm
type:
models (representaions) and stellar aberation
credit:
Clarendon Laboratory