Patrick Wilson's method of determining the motion of the solar system Size:L: 80 x 60cm General views of Leeds

General views of Leeds

A man pulls a cart in the background

and William Gladstone are represented in this cartoon

View showing Beefeaters

Patrick Wilson's method of determining the motion of the solar system Size:L: 80 x 60cm General views of LeedsFigures 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