This is a little refresher on why we are researching Johann Bessler. It's aimed more at the casual visitor but hopefully will galvanize my older readers into renewed activity with the hope of success!
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| Bessler's original portrait with pentagram added |
In 1712 Johann Bessler (aka ORFFYREUS) exhibited a machine which he claimed, drew its energy from gravity. Despite nearly twenty years of the most stringent tests, examinations and public trials, not the slightest sign of deception was ever found. Bessler died 33 years later, in poverty, still maintaining that his machine was genuine and there was no convincing evidence to the contrary.He had a number of supporters as well as enemies, and among his champions were some of the most respected men of the day. These men, included Gottfried Leibniz and Christian Wolff, top scientists of the calibre of Newton.
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Bessler wanted to sell his machine for the sum of £20,000, a fortune in those days, equivalent to well over a million Pounds today. Despite the apparent stupidity of asking such a large sum of money, it was not unique and in fact Bessler based the sum on the one offered by the British Board of Longitude, which, at the same time, was offering £20,000 to the first person to discover a means of locating the exact position of a ship at sea, longitudinally. John Harrison eventually won the money although it took him and his son many years to get all of it from a reluctant British government.
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| First drawing of wheel with added pentagram, Grundlicher Bericht |
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| A picture of the remains of Bessler's windmill. |
Bessler failed to sell his machine, not for a lack of customers, but because he refused to allow access to his secret until he had the money in his possession. He offered his head to the axe man if he should be found to have deceived his prospective clients. But his determination not to risk being cheated of his reward, defeated all negotiations. He died in harrowing circumstances years later, building Northern Europe's first horizontal windmill to his own design of course. In mid-winter, starving, weak and in debt, he fell to his death. The massive base of the mill still stands, decaying, weatherworn and utterly neglected, in the small town of Fürstenberg in Germany.
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| Last page of Apologia Poetica with added pentagram |
The primary purpose of this blog is to discuss matters pertaining to the successful search for the solution to Bessler's wheel. There is good evidence that the inventor left behind him sufficient clues to permit someone to reconstruct the wheel. This information is formed from textual, graphic and encoded clues. On this page are examples of his hidden pentagrams but there are many more clues offering other hints as to the way his machine worked.
Other clues appearing throughout all of his works, implicate the number five. I have suggested that perhapst five mechanisms are needed to build a successful machine, but it may indicate a phase in deciphering his encoded material.
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