Thomas Wright

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What Wikipedia says

Thomas Wright (22 September 1711 – 25 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.

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Image: Mezzotint by T. Frye, after himself, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.