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An original theory or new hypothesis of the universe

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An original theory or new hypothesis of the universe

Thomas Wright

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The Milky Way puzzled everyone until a Durham surveyor explained it as our inside view of a layer of stars. Thomas Wright's letters of 1750, with their remarkable plates, propose a universe of ordered star systems, ideas Kant soon developed into island universes. Astronomy's imagination expanding in real time. See the cosmos widen by one bold guess.

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36 chapters

  1. 1UNIVERSE,
  2. 2THE PREFACE.
  3. 3THE CONTENTS.
  4. 4Directions for placing the PLATES.
  5. 5Some of the Principal ERRATA.
  6. 6A LIST OF THE SUBSCRIBERS.
  7. 7LETTER the FIRST.
  8. 8LETTER the SECOND.
  9. 9LETTER the THIRD.
  10. 10PLATE IV.
  11. 11PLATE V.
  12. 12PLATE VI.
  13. 13PLATE VII.
  14. 14PLATE VIII.
  15. 15PLATE IX.
  16. 16PLATE X.
  17. 17LETTER the FOURTH.
  18. 18PLATE XI.

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