The lost solar system of the ancients discovered
John Wilson's two-volume speculative treatise of 1856, published in London by Longman, argues that Egyptian pyramids encode an ancient astronomical system, aimed at Victorian antiquarians and amateur astronomers. The plates are fine-line engineering diagrams: nested squares, stepped triangles, and ray-fans of construction lines, supplying designers with austere geometric lattices, perspective grids, and lettered measurement schematics.
