Thomas Wright (astronomer) Quote

This is the great Order of Nature which I shall now endeavor to prove, and thereby solve the Phaenomena of the Via Lactea; and in order thereto, I want nothing to be granted but what may easily be allowed, namely, that the Milky Way is formed of an infinite Number of small Stars.


An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe, Letter the Seventh (p. 62), Printed for the Author. 1750


This is the great Order of Nature which I shall now endeavor to prove, and thereby solve the Phaenomena of the Via Lactea; and in order thereto, I...

This is the great Order of Nature which I shall now endeavor to prove, and thereby solve the Phaenomena of the Via Lactea; and in order thereto, I...

This is the great Order of Nature which I shall now endeavor to prove, and thereby solve the Phaenomena of the Via Lactea; and in order thereto, I...

This is the great Order of Nature which I shall now endeavor to prove, and thereby solve the Phaenomena of the Via Lactea; and in order thereto, I...