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Kant conjectures that some of the nebulae visible in the night sky might be separate "galaxies" themselves, similar to our own. In a treatise Immanuel Kant draws on earlier work by Thomas Wright, speculates (correctly) that the Milky Way might be a rotating body of a huge number of stars, held together by gravitational forces akin to the Solar System but on much large
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