Thomas Wright c. 1859 Wikipedia
Portrait of Thomas WrightThomas Wright (22 September 171125 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 nebulæ were distant galaxies. Wikipedia
Thomas Wright A Jurassic fossil ammonite, Arietites bucklandi, from Wright's monograph on Lias Ammonites Dr Thomas Wright FRS FRSE FGS (9 November 180917 November 1884) was a Scottish surgeon and palaeontologist. Wikipedia
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