Spheres Of Stars In Wright's Theory Of The Universe
by Eth-bibliothek Zürich/science Photo Library
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Spheres Of Stars In Wright's Theory Of The Universe
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Eth-bibliothek Zürich/science Photo Library
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Spheres of stars in Wright's theory of the universe, 1750. This page is from 'An original theory or new hypothesis of the Universe' (1750) by English astronomer Thomas Wright (1711-1786). In this book Wright gave the first explanation of the appearance of the Milky Way as being due to our immersion in a layer of stars. He proposed that the Sun is one of many stars orbiting around a Divine Centre and that the stars are distributed either in annuli (rings) or in thin, concentric, spherical shells (as shown here), with the 'Eye of Providence' at centre.
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