Foreword to the translation of James Bradley’s paper on the discovery of the aberration of light (on the 300th anniversary of its publication)
V.I. Ritus
Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky prosp. 53, Moscow, 119991, Russian Federation
On the 300th anniversary of the paper: Bradley J "A Letter from the Reverend Mr. James Bradley, Savilian Professor of Astronomy at Oxford, and F.R.S. to Dr. Edmond Halley, Astronom. Reg. &c. giving an Account of a new discovered Motion of the Fix'd Stars" Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 35, Issue 406, pp. 637-661 (1727-1728)
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