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stars were reduced by Bessel and published
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in 1818, at KAnigsberg, in his well-known
standard work, Fundamenta Astronomiae .
In it are results showing the laws of refrac-
tion, with tables of its amount, the max-
imum value of aberration, and other con-
stants.
Bradley was succeeded by Bliss, and he
by Maskelyne (1765), who carried on ex-
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