Note 17 — Chapter I
Reading edition
The System of the World, p. 125, London, 1800 (a translation of Cosmologische Briefe). Lambert regarded nebulæ as composed of stars crowded together, but not as external universes. In the case of the Orion nebula, indeed, he throws out such a conjecture, but afterwards suggests that it may form a centre for that one of the subordinate systems composing the Milky Way to which our sun belongs.