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physics.hist-ph2003

First Description of Discrete Stars Composing the Milk Way in Thomas Watson's Hekatompathia (1582)

Eric Lewin Altschuler, William Jansen

We note that the first unambiguous description of the Milk Way as being composed of a large number of discrete stars is in Sonnet 31 of Thomas Watson's (d 1592) Hekatompathia (1582…