Plane and profile views of stars moving around a central body — “not only the Phenomena of the Milky Way may be thus accounted for, but also all the cloudy Spots, and irregular Distribution of them”.
Featured on PDR in the collection Thomas Wright’s An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe (1750)
“I own I can never look upon the Stars without wondering why the whole World does not become Astronomers”. So admits Thomas Wright in An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe (1750). Written in the form of nine letters to a nameless friend, the book puts forwards “my Theory of the Universe, and the Ideas I have form’d of the known Creation.”
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Plane and profile views of stars moving around a central body
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An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe
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