Discovery of the nutation of the Earth's axis (1740s observations)
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The "Discovery of the nutation of the Earth's axis" refers to James Bradley’s 18th-century identification of a small, periodic wobble in Earth’s rotational axis, a key advance in understanding Earth’s motion and improving astronomical measurements.
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