Thomas Wright
English astronomer and mathematician
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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 nebulæ were distant galaxies. Wikipedia
Born: September 22, 1711, Byers Green, United Kingdom
Died: February 25, 1786 (age 74 years), Byers Green, United Kingdom