Patrick Wilson's method of determining the motion of the solar system Size:L: 80 x 60cm Plate 30B from the book

Plate 30B from the book Historia testudinum iconibus illustrata by Johann David Schoepff (Erlangen

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View of St Bride's Avenue including the premises of Pitman and Ashfield

'The Pall Mall Apollo or R-ty in a blaze'

Patrick Wilson's method of determining the motion of the solar system Size:L: 80 x 60cm Plate 30B from the bookFigures 1 2 from the paper 'A proposal for detecting, by observation, any great concealed motion which may belong in common to all the bodies of the Solar System, and for ascertaining the velocity of that motion by Patrick Wilson in a letter from Nevil Maskelyne. Not published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. Maskelyne wrote to the Royal Society in an attempt to establish precedent for Wilson in the face of a similar prism based