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Over the period of three hundred years leading up to the detection of the first parallax in 1838, the measurement of star positions had actually followed two somewhat separate branches. The first of these concentrated on the measurement of parallax, exemplified by the pioneering works of Bradley and Bessel.
Such cooperation proves, if proof is necessary, that science knows no nationality, and that common pursuit of truth for truth’s sake affords one touch of nature which makes the whole world kin.
Sir David Gill (1843–1914)
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Perryman, M. (2010). Developments 1850–1980. In: The Making of History's Greatest Star Map. Astronomers' Universe. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11602-5_5
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