“A true Projection of the System of the known Comets, all in just Proportion and Position to the Orbits of Saturn and Jupiter.”

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.”

“A true Projection of the System of the known Comets, all in just Proportion and Position to the Orbits of Saturn and Jupiter.”

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1750

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An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe


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