Month: February 2022

Thomas Wright’s An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe (1750)

Leila Belkora’s Minding the Heavens; a great book for an historic overview on the discovery of the Milky Way. The opening chapter introduced me to Thomas Wright who’s creative deductions reasoned that we are embedded within the body of stars known as the Milky Way. He also considered the infinity of the universe and the …

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