I feel that the clues I have published may be too subtle for some to accept. This puzzles me, but of course I've had many years to study them and get inside Bessler's mind. Obviously some people think I may be fooling myself but I have good reasons for thinking the clues are deliberate and real. I never intended to give anything away when I published the clues and therefore by themselves they may seem unimportant, but I hope to explain why they are helpful in discovering the solution to Bessler's wheel. I won't publish any more as I shall be away for a two weeks and will have to close the comments facility until my return. I am taking a small computer with me and if I can find a wifi hotspot somewhere then I'll try to write something. So, in the mean time....
3 days to go - 7th clue. The items in the Toys page in MT, numbered 138, 139, 140 and 141, are labelled A, B, C, D and E (1, 2, 3, 4, 5). There is an additional hand-drawn item, a spinning top, which includes in the notes attached to it the number 5 (five again!). You can rather neatly divide the drawing labelled 'A' horizontally into five equal divisions. You can run the horizontal lines across to the left and find that they match well with item 'B' and further across to the stork's bill/lazy tongs.
It has always seemed clear to me that the items labelled 'A' and 'B' are the same things - and with the five divisions in place, show they are also five repeated versions of items 'C' and 'D'. 'A' is shown with the five mechanical arrangements labelled 'C' and 'D' in an open position, and 'B' is the same but closed.
But item labelled 'E' is also similar - you should think of it as 'C' and 'D' linked together.
In other words, as I said in another post, the drawings are not what they appear to be, at first sight.
One more thing. I could never understand why Johann Bessler added four numbers to the bottom of the page and I assumed that it was to show which pages he had omitted. In fact this doesn't make sense because this is the last page and followed on from 137, which would have been the last page before he added the toys page. But four numbers doesn't relate to the five (or six) drawings he labelled, but here's an idea - 138, 139, 140 and 141 totals 558.
JC
