Solar system Historical artwork of the solar system and neighbouring systems with orbits of comets around each star This illustration is from the book The use of globes published by astronomer Thomas Wright in London in Wright wrote stars are so many suns that each of these stars or suns is attended as ours is by a proper number of planets and comets and that each hath a gravity independent of each other so that these several systems cannot interfere with one another Thomas Wright was a selftaught astronomer from Durham England