I don't know, isn't Aristotle credited with "predicting" the theory of the atom? Is this not an equivalent situation, in principle? According to the article, i

I don't know, isn't Aristotle credited with "predicting" the theory of the atom? Is this not an equivalent situation, in principle? According to the article, it seems that his contribution was calculating a body size/density which would, according to newtonian physics, disallow light from escaping its gravity. So while the idea of a dark star existed at the time, the especially prescient part was connecting this to gravity. It would have been truly extraordinary if Michell had predicted _all_ of the relevant properties of black holes.