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Chapter 1: UNIVERSE,
By Thomas Wright
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Presented as nine letters, the work develops a mathematical hypothesis that interprets the Milky Way as a flattened, system-like arrangement of stars and extends that model to the sizes, motions, and distances of planets, stars, and nebulae. It assesses observational evidence and degrees of probability, offers estimates of cosmic scale, and argues that many faint nebulae are remote, galaxy-like systems. Throughout, the author connects these cosmological ideas to questions of order, final causes, and the theological and moral implications of a vast hierarchical universe.

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Title: An original theory or new hypothesis of the universe

founded upon the laws of nature, and solving by mathematical principles the general phænomena of the visible creation; and particularly the via lactea ...

Author: Thomas Wright

Release date: February 7, 2023 [eBook #69983]
Most recently updated: October 19, 2024

Language: English

Original publication: United Kingdom: H. Chapelle, 1750

Credits: Tim Lindell, T Cosmas and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AN ORIGINAL THEORY OR NEW HYPOTHESIS OF THE UNIVERSE ***

AN
ORIGINAL THEORY
OR
NEW HYPOTHESIS
OF THE

UNIVERSE,

Founded upon the
LAWS of NATURE,
AND SOLVING BY
MATHEMATICAL PRINCIPLES
THE
General Phænomena of the Visible Creation;
AND PARTICULARLY
The VIA LACTEA.
Compris'd in Nine Familiar Letters from the Author to his Friend.
And Illustrated with upwards of Thirty Graven and Mezzotinto Plates,
By the Best Masters.

By THOMAS WRIGHT, of Durham.

One Sun by Day, by Night ten Thousand shine,
And light us deep into the Deity.        Dr. Young.
LONDON:
Printed for the Author, and sold by H. Chapelle, in Grosvenor-Street.
MDCCL.