An original theory or new hypothesis of the universe : founded upon the laws of nature, and solving by mathematical principles : the general phaenomena of the visible creation; and particularly the Via Lactea ... : compris'd in nine familiar letters from the author to his friend : and illustrated with upward of thirty graven and mezzotinto plates ...
An 1750 astronomical treatise by Thomas Wright, printed for the author and sold by H. Chapelle, presenting a cosmological theory of the universe and the Milky Way in nine letters addressed to a friend. The plates are engraved and mezzotint star maps and sky views, showing the Milky Way as a band of stars across a dark ground, with the stars rendered as tiny rings and dots that a designer could borrow for night-sky or cosmic textures.
