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Hi Fletcher, Glad to hear you're well. Sorry to hear you've been kept away from Fiji - I've been imagining you there all this time! I hope you can get back there soon. I'm pleased I could help you and will try to be of further assistance in future, but it's difficult to find the time at the moment. ...

Please note that in the DT hardcopy pictures of B's. Kassel Wheel (3) is inserted AFTER the opening paragraph of this Bogehold section. What is the correct order for the Bessler Kassel Wheel pics ? In all the original copies of DT that I've seen, all woodcuts precede the testimonials section. The o...

Hi Fletcher, It's been a while since I stopped by and I hope you and your family are well and indeed hope all the members of the forum are doing ok and have kept safe from coronavirus. Here's a past topic where I went into some detail about the various places where Bessler mentions 'Werckzeug' (tool...

Don't worry I'm used to it by now. It's easy for this stuff to get buried on a forum and shows there's still a need for me to present everything in one place on a website etc.

Stewart

Hi Robinhood46 The section of text from Wolff's letter that I quoted above is where the 'warped boards' quote comes from, but as you can see from the original Latin there's nothing that can be translated as 'warped' and I'm not sure who originally gave that as a translation or how they thought they ...

Hi MrBill The wheel that Wolff is referring to is Bessler's second demonstration wheel at Draschwitz. Unlike the Merseburg (3rd) and Kassel (4th) wheels, the Draschwitz wheel had boards for a cover rather than canvas. My transcription from Wolff's original letter (the words between the ~ characters ...

Having read back what I posted last night I think I should just clarify the last point about Karl seeing the interior of the wheel. The first item in the contract (dated August 1716) between Karl and Bessler stipulates that Karl would promise to pay Bessler 4000 Rthl. immediately upon the "fait...

Hi All Sorry that I've been away for so long. Last year turned into a nightmare with the death of a close friend and colleague who founded the organisation I work for. That has inevitably delayed the publication of my own translations and books about Bessler and his wheels for the time being, but I ...

Hi Daxwc Is there some kind of history to putting periods behind numbers? Yes, it was a common thing to do in both printing and handwriting. You can see it in Bessler's printed and handwritten texts and also in those of others from his time. Taking the windmill pages you've posted as an example, the...

I've received a PM from an angry Oystein titled "About your unfair wordings..", saying: you publicly attack me and straight out call me a liar and "a jerk". Where have I said that? Please give a quote. Does anyone else think I've treated Oystein unfairly? If I've been unfair then...

And If you travel Germany, you will see way back in history 1=i written on the walls on the kings castles... I even attached MT 11 where Bessler himself writes MT i i Of course I = 1, it's Roman numerals, I'm not disputing that. It's your picking and choosing what coding methods that bothers me. Wh...

because you would not be distracted by your own eager to disprove I'm not eager to disprove you and take no pleasure in this. You know I take this subject seriously and just want to make sure Bessler isn't misrepresented in any way, and fact isn't mixed with fiction. I appreciate you're writing qui...

So, was this just a game to give you the number 55 as the final goal? Or was it something else? Looking closer, there is a similar header below. Was the task to reach the same value of 55 in that line too? Why would that be a task, when there wasn't a task to find 55 in the first Bible reference? T...

What's up with the hostility? Oystein, all i did was trace it. No need to get offended. The pentagon just simply does not fit. Get mad at bessler or yourself; not me. This is a forum, a place for discussion. Are my findings really worth nothing? Do they merit an outburst? Numbers don't lie and the ...

What was the purpose of the result? Jacobi 3,4,5,6,7 The line seemed "magic" when solved this way, but could it contain more information than just IV=4 and confirming the use of Digit sums? I'm sorry but you haven't managed to confirm the use of digit sums at this point. One thing we must...