Wright, Thomas (1711-86)

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 4107. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

History And Archaeoastronomy, Biographies

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English astronomer, born near Durham, clock-maker and mathematics teacher, wrote in 1750 a curiously argued book in which he suggested that the Milky Way was a disk-like system of stars with the solar system near the center. Wright suggested that nebulae were star systems similar to the Milky Way, but very far away. Conjectured that the gap in the planets between Mars and Jupiter had been cleared...

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