What is recorded here
This blue commemorative plaque records: Site of the original home and garden of Thomas Wright b.1711 d.1786 polymath, architect, designer and first astronomer to describe the Milky Way Recorded plaque organisation: Durham County Council.
Thomas Wright was a polymath, architect, and designer who significantly contributed to astronomy by being the first to describe the structure of the Milky Way as a disk-shaped system of stars.
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