Patrick Wilson's method of determining the motion of the solar system Size:L: 80 x 60cm The image is a satire

The image is a satire on Wellington's lavish expenditure and trifling domestic economies

Duke's Place

General views of Leeds

Circa 1947

Patrick Wilson's method of determining the motion of the solar system Size:L: 80 x 60cm The image is a satireFigures 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