Illustration depicting the six known planets & their moons from Thomas Wright's book An Original Theory of the Universe,published in London in 1750. The two large planets are Jupiter (top) & Saturn (bottom),each shown with its respective satellites (top & bottom rows). The middle row shows,from left to right,Mercury,Venus,the Moon,Earth and Mars. All are drawn to scale. The larger bodies are depicted as having Earth-like continents & oceans,those of Jupiter being partially hidded by bands of cloud. In this book Wright (1711-86) gave the first correct explanation of the appearance of the Milky Way as being due to our immersion in a layer of stars | |
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