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1. James Bradley

Deep Water

‘Deep Water is a major achievement; a vast fathoming of the pasts, presents, and futures of the world’s oceans and seas. Bradley’s skills both as novelist and essayist converge here to create this wise, compassionate, and urgent book, characterised throughout by a clarity of prose and a bracing moral gaze that searches water, self, and reader.’

Samuel Molyneux

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Samuel Molyneux FRS (16 July 1689 - 13 April 1728), son of William Molyneux, was an 18th-century member of the British parliament from Kew and an amateur astronomer whose work with James Bradley attempting to measure stellar parallax led to the discovery of the aberration of light. The aberration was the first definite evidence that the earth moved and that Copernicus and Kepler were correct. In addition to his astronomical works, Molyneux wrote about the natural history and other features of Ireland.

James Bradley (Footballer)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. James Bradley (5 May 1881 - 12 March 1954) was a footballer who played for Liverpool Football Club in the early 20th century, helping them to the Football League Championship in 1905. Born in Goldenhill, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, Bradley played for Stoke before being signed by Liverpool manager Tom Watson in September 1905. Making his debut in a Football League Division One match against Birmingham at Anfield on the 23 September 1905 a game that the Reds won 2-0, he scored his first goal, the opening goal of the 4-1 home victory over Newcastle, 18 months later on the 23 March 1907.

Hodograph

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. A hodograph is a diagram that gives a vectorial visual representation of the movement of a body or a fluid. It is the locus of one end of a variable vector, with the other end fixed. The position of any plotted data on such a diagram is proportional to the velocity of the moving particle. It is also called a velocity diagram. It appears to have been used by James Bradley, but its practical development is mainly from Sir William Rowan Hamilton, who published an account of it in the Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy in 1846. It is used in physics, astronomy and fluid mechanics to plot deformation of material, motion of planet or any other data that involves the velocities of different part of a body.

James Bradley

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. James Bradley FRS (March 1693 - 13 July 1762) was an English astronomer the Astronomer Royal from 1742. Bradley is best known for two fundamental discoveries in astronomy, the aberration of light (1725-28), and the nutation of the Earth's axis (1728-48). These discoveries were called "the most brilliant and useful of the century" by Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, historian of astronomy, mathematical astronomer and director of the Paris Observatory, in his history of astronomy in the 18th century (1821), because "It is to these two discoveries by Bradley that we owe the exactness of modern astronomy. .... This double service assures to their discoverer the most distinguished place (after Hipparchus and Kepler) above the greatest astronomers of all ages and all countries.

Marian Albertovich Kowalski

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Marian Albertovich Kowalski (August 15, 1821 or October 15, 1821 - May 28, 1884 or July 9, 1884) was a Polish- Russian astronomer. Sometimes his last name is given as Kovalsky or Koval'sky or Koval'skiy. In the scientific literature, his name was given as Kowalski or Kowalsky.