page_title: Thomas Wright (astronomer)
hierarchical_section_title: Thomas Wright (astronomer)
caption_attribution_description: Thomas Wright
context_page_description: Thomas Wright was an English astronomer, mathematician, instrument maker, architect and garden designer. He was the first to describe the shape of the Milky Way and to speculate that faint nebulae were distant galaxies.
context_section_description: Thomas Wright (22 September 1711 – 25 February 1786) was an English astronomer, mathematician, instrument maker, architect and garden designer. He was the first to describe the shape of the Milky Way and to speculate that faint nebulae were distant galaxies.
caption: Thomas Wright in 1737
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