The Cloisters, Temple.
_Herschel Anticipated_ (Vol. iv., p. 233.).--I cannot inform AEGROTUS who
was declared to be mad for believing the sun's motion, but Herschel was
anticipated by Lalande (_Memoires_, 1776), who inferred it from the
sun's rotation; also by Professor Wilson, of Glasgow (_Thoughts on
Universal Gravitation_, 1777), and, earlier than these, by the Rev. Mr.
Michell, in _Philosophical Transactions_, 1767. Mayer (_De Motu
Fixarum_, 1760) mentions the hypothesis, and rejects it.