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| Astronomer, born in Sherborne, Gloucestershire, SWC England, UK. He studied at Oxford, and became professor of astronomy there in 1721. In 1742 he succeeded Edmond Halley as professor of astronomy at Greenwich. He published his discovery of the aberration of light (1729), providing the first observational proof of the Copernican hypothesis. In 1748 he discovered that the inclination of the Earth's axis to the ecliptic is not constant. |
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