… Meanwhile, our understanding of the stellar mass (the Milky Way) surrounding our solar system also progressed. Galileo had already discovered that the galaxy is a collection of countless stars in his first astronomical observations with a telescope (1609), but later, the Englishman T. Wright (1711-86) and philosopher I. Kant argued (1750-55) that the stars around us form an isolated system like a convex lens with the sun at its center. FW Herschel, who discovered Uranus (1781), later developed this idea observationally and was the first to publish a model of the galaxy. … *Some of the terminology that mentions "Wright, T." is listed below. Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information |
… 一方,太陽系を取り巻く恒星集団(銀河系)についての認識も進んだ。すでにガリレイは銀河が無数の恒星の集りであることを望遠鏡による初めての天体観測(1609)で見つけたが,その後イギリスのライトT.Wright(1711‐86)や哲学者I.カントは,われわれのまわりの恒星が太陽を中心とする凸レンズ状の孤立した系をつくっていると説いた(1750‐55)。天王星を発見した(1781)F.W.ハーシェルはその後この考えを観測的に発展させ,初めて銀河系のモデルを発表した。… ※「Wright,T.」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。 出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報 |
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