The Third clue expanded upon.
Bessler said in Apologia Poetica, "These foolish ravings of my enemies will be held up to total ridicule by all intelligent people, who, with true understanding, have sought the Mobile in a place no different from that in which I eventually found it."
I would paraphrase the above and reduce it, as 'the words of my enemies will be ridiculed by all clever people who have already looked for the solution where I found it.' Or to put it another way, 'I found the solution where every other intelligent person looked.'
I described this a clue, but it seems almost no clue at all, it is so innocuously presented. Bessler must have had a piece of information in mind when he wrote the sentence, so what would he have found useful for his wheel in the previous designs which had never worked? What possible feature might he have been able to take advantage of? The most obvious fact is that the wheels did not rotate. Regardless of how the weights were arranged and could move, the wheels remained stationary. How might he have found the answer with that knowledge?
JC
