Darwin-L Message Log 1:193 (September 1993)

Academic Discussion on the History and Theory of the Historical Sciences

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<1:193>From DARWIN@iris.uncg.edu  Wed Sep 22 10:10:12 1993

Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1993 10:51:54 -0400 (EDT)
From: DARWIN@iris.uncg.edu
Subject: September 22 -- Today in the Historical Sciences
To: darwin-l@ukanaix.cc.ukans.edu
Organization: University of NC at Greensboro

SEPTEMBER 22 -- TODAY IN THE HISTORICAL SCIENCES

1711: THOMAS WRIGHT, author of _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_, is born at Byers Green, near Durham, England.  In his
contemplation of cosmological time he will write: "In this great Celestial
Creation, the Catastrophe of a World, such as ours, or even the total
Dissolution of a System of Worlds, may possibly be no more to the great
Author of Nature, than the most common Accident in Life with us, and in all
Probability such final and general Doom-Days may be as frequent there, as
even Birth-Days, or Mortality with us upon the Earth." (An Original
Theory_, 1750, p. 76.)

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