I've been looking for some old stamps for my grandaughter who has decided to start collecting them and I came across a huge bundle of envelopes I received from people all over the world when I first published my book. I have almost 400 stamps from so many different countries.
I'm amazed at how many I have and I think I should belatedly publish a word of thanks to all those people who took a chance on sending me a cheque to buy my book. There was no PayPal nor anything similar back in 1997 and it must have seemed a risky purchase to send a cheque from one side of the world to the other. The cheques themselves took six weeks to clear if they were in any denomination other than Pounds Sterling, which most of them were, but I couldn't leave people waiting all that time so I just sent the books and hoped the cheques would clear. They all did and for that I'm extremely grateful.
So I'd like to offer a belated thank you to all those people who risked a sum of money, with very little information about myself. I guess we have grown older and wiser since then and are much more aware and wary of internet scams than we were back then. The internet was a new and exciting toy whose dangers most of us didn't fully appreciate. Not only are we now much more clued up on the dangers of the internet but we are more cynical unfortunately.
My Spanish holiday gave me some much needed thinking time and I discovered some more information which has enabled me to produce a more accurate picture of the precise proportions of two parts of the mechanism. I'm constantly amazed at the amount of information Bessler managed to secrete in various places under our eyes, without our noticing. Anyway back to work, time marches on!
JC
Yes,.. Maybe the solution will come in this tri-centenary year!
ReplyDeleteJohn,the blog is so much nicer to use without the passwords.
ReplyDeleteGlad to hear it Trevor. I'll keep it that way unless it proves to be a problem.
ReplyDeleteJC
Yes, reading the various translations is important, but the MOST important clues will not be found in them. I'm talking about the clues concerning what was going on INSIDE of the Bessler's wheels. That information is contained, almost exclusively, in the two DT portraits. The serious Bessler mobilist needs to study those figures intensely while also building his model wheels, either physical or virtual ones.
ReplyDeleteIf one can, he should try to obtain extreme enlargements of the DT portraits and begin by measuring the various angles and ratios that it contains. What angles and ratios seem to be repeated. Locate points within the figures and draw both horizontal and vertical lines through them. Try drawing extended lines through sets of points within the figures and see where they lead. You WILL be surprised by what you find! Study the figures daily. Take your time and record anything you discover.
Whatever you do, do NOT dismiss the arrangement of symbols within the portraits as just a random jumble of components. They are there for SPECIFIC reasons: to (a) establish Bessler's priority to the internal mechanism he discovered that actually made an OB PM gravity wheel possible, and (b) should he fail to find a buyer for his discovery and then took the secret to his grave (which, of course, happened), to allow some future Bessler mobilist to replicate the design.
So, the clues are there and they are FAR more important than ANY other ones you will ever find.
Ola, welcome back from your break John, hope your refreshed!
ReplyDeleteJ
Thanks J.
ReplyDeleteHave you decided to stop posting clues, John?
ReplyDeleteI think maybe John is wondering why we are not building based on the clues he has already posted . ;)
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of your books John I lost my digital copy of DT when one of my computers crashed . You think you could avail another copy to me somehow ?
ReplyDeleteJC is probably just suffering from a bit of "vacation lag" after his trip down to sunny ol' Spain. It can take time to get back into the swing of things again after one has been away from them for awhile.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure he will finally unveil his latest approach to Bessler's wheels along with the clue interpretations he made that prompted him to pursue that approach. If he's right, then we can be sure that there are probably a dozen or more craftsmen out there in PMland right now that will immediately set to work trying to duplicate his device and, if necessary, tweak it into becoming a "runner" if it is not already one. I will, of course, immediately simulate it to see what it's potential is.
I am interested in any interpretations he has of the clues "embedded" in the figures that Bessler provided and, as those reading my comments will know, particularly in those found in the DT portraits.