KantImmanuel, Allgemeine Naturgeschichte und Theorie des Himmels (Königsberg and Leipzig, 1755), 2–3 (English translation, Universal natural history and theory of the heavens, transl, by JakiS. L. (Edinburgh, 1981), 102).
2.
WrightThomas, An original theory or new hypothesis of the universe (London, 1750), summarised in Freye Urtheile, Hamburg, issues of 1, 5 and 8 January 1751; a translation of a version of this summary was published by HastieinW. his Kant's cosmogony (Glasgow, 1900; reprinted, New York and London, 1970), Appendix B.
3.
HughesEdward, “The early journal of Thomas Wright of Durham”, Annals of science, vii (1951), 1–24. The original manuscript is British Library ADD. MSS 15627.
4.
The bibliography appears in PanethF. A., Chemistry and beyond, ed. by DingleHerbert and MartinG. R. (New York, 1964), 114–19.
5.
GusheeVera, “Thomas Wright of Durham, astronomer”, Isis, xxxiii (1941), 197–218.
6.
Paneth — who in correspondence with Harlow Shapley (now in the Harvard Archives) admitted puzzlement as to why his own interpretation of Wright's cosmology was incompatible with the plates in An original theory — assures readers that “This article fails to understand Wright's Original theory “(op. cit., 118).
7.
KnightD. M., in “Thomas Wright of Durham”, Actes du XIe Congrès International d'Histoire des Sciences, iii (Warsaw, 1968), 37–40.
8.
Thomas Wright of Durham, Second or singular thoughts upon the theory of the universe, ed. by HoskinMichael (London, 1968).
9.
A facsimile reprint of Wright's An original theory (ref. 2) was published with an introduction by Michael Hoskin (London, 1971); the volume also includes an edition of Wright's 1734 “The elements of existence or A theory of the universe”. A discussion of the development of Wright's cosmology is to be found in Hoskin's “The cosmology of Thomas Wright of Durham”, Journal for the history of astronomy, i (1970), 44–52.
10.
Hughes, op. cit. (ref. 3), 21.
11.
Ibid.
12.
WrightThomas, Arbours & grottos: A facsimile of the two parts of Universal Architecture (1755 and 1758), with a catalogue of Wright's works in architecture and garden design by Eileen Harris, published in 1979 by the Scholar Press of London in an edition of 350 copies.
13.
Ibid, (from Miss Harris's essay on “Architecture and garden design”, the pages of which are unnumbered).
14.
Hughes, op. cit. (ref. 3), 10.
15.
Ibid. For more information on Wright's early publications, see the introduction by Michael Hoskin to the reprint of Wright's Clavis coelestis (London, 1967; original publ. 1742).
16.
Hughes, op. cit. (ref. 3), 12.
17.
From the original in the Royal Society Library, JCB. 15.68–69, published by permission of the Royal Society.
18.
From the original in the Royal Society Library, JCB.15.132, published by permission of the Royal Society.
19.
Royal Society Library, RBC.19.108.
20.
Ibid., 255.
21.
Royal Society Library, LBC.23.2.
22.
Royal Society Library, L&P, I.63a.
23.
Ibid., 65b.
24.
Ibid, 352; “A letter from Mr. Tho. Wright to James Theobald, Esq; F.R.S. concerning two ancient camps in Hampshire” [with two figures printed as Tab. II, Figs 2 and 3], Philosophical transactions, xliii (1744–45), 273–5.
