Posted by D. (199.60.107.1) on June 07, 2003 at 16:54:29:
John, how do you regard this? Bessler was arrested because he was accused of being a fraud, then he writes this;
NB. 1st May, 1733. Due to the arrest, I burned and buried all papers that prove the possibility. However, I have left all demonstrations and experiments, since it would be difficult for anybody to see or learn anything about a perpetual motion from them or to decide whether there was any truth in them because no illustration by itself contains a description of the motion...