"This work on 18th century astronomy is intended for students of the history of science, astronomy and 18th century English society, and for scholars seeking new lines of inquiry. It contains an extensive bibliography and a detailed chronology, both of which oer support for further reading and research." -- MathSciNet"John Fisher's book is an important resource for anyone interested not just in Bradley but in improvements to instrumentation, practice and error calculation, and in the intertwined projects of eighteenth-century astronomy they served: finding a method of determining longitude at sea, observing solar and stellar parallax, and chasing down the implications of universal gravitation, including on the shape of the Earth." -- Rebekah Higgitt, Journal for the History of Astronomy"John Fisher's book is an important resource for anyone interested not just in Bradley but in improvements to instrumentation, practice and error calculation, and in the intertwined projects of eighteenth-century astronomy they served: finding a method of determining longitude at sea, observing solar and stellar parallax, and chasing down the implications of universal gravitation, including on the shape of the Earth." -- Rebekah Higgitt, Journal for the History of Astronomy.