At the beginning of November I posted a ‘curious fact’, about how Bessler sent Karl a special greeting each year, on his name day, full of thanks and praise for the Landgrave, these were full of his favourite chronograms, each including the date of the document. One curious feature was the discovery that he composed special editions dated 1519, 1619, 1719, 1819, 1919 and 2019! Perhaps he anticipate that it would take another 300 rears or so to decipher his clues and produce a working model of his wheel?
I promised to post photos of all twelve greetings in case anyone wanted to study them and see if they could find evidence that there was hidden information in them. The quality is not good but at least they are in public view and perhaps copies of the originals can be obtained.
The quality is not brilliant but you can enlarge them and maybe find the key to unravelling any kind of information hidden in the page. I might be wrong of course in which case these pages can remain available for future consideration or not.
Anyway I’ve wanted to publish these for a long time. Good luck.
JC
JC
Sorry, I don't read 18th century German. But, I do know how to find symbols in drawings like SoS taught me to do! I focused in on that drawing at the top of the second page of the poem and found some interesting symbols in it. Here's an enlargement of that drawing:
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The two cherubim immediately caught my attention. We see them in another drawing which is that second portrait in DT where they are on the corners of the organ in the background. Cherubim were considered as little baby or child angels who delivered messages from God to humans and Bessler was convinced that God gave him the secret of pm. The two angels in the poem drawing are holding up a crown which I assume is for Karl. But, that circular crown is also, imo, a symbol for Bessler's pm wheels! It is made of gold and Bessler considered his wheels to be very valuable just like gold. On the rim of the crown there are symbols that look like springs and a suggestion that everything is connected together inside of his wheels. That interconnectedness is also suggested by the laurel leaf crown being held by the cherubim on the left. That second crown is another symbol for Bessler's wheels. Laurel leaf crowns were, in ancient times, given to someone to honor some great achievement of theirs. In this drawing they symbolize Bessler's great achievement of discovering a working pm wheel design.
There are also several Y shape symbols in the drawing which I and, of course, SoS are convinced was the shape of the levers Bessler used in his wheels. The most prominent one is formed by the leaves on the right side of the drawing.
There's probably more in this drawing that I missed. These were just my first impressions. I'd also like to be able to read an accurate English translation of this poem if it's ever available.
Disciple of SoS
Nice analysis, DoSoS. From studying your enlarged image I noticed something. Look at the center lion in the circle below the large gold crown held by the two angels. It's standing on its hind legs and wearing a crown and I assume it is supposed to represent Carl. Then I noticed it has TWO tails! I looked it up and this was something done to show that someone, like Carl, was courageous and honorable. But, IF the emblem was made up by Bessler, then he might have intended that center lion's crown to also represent his pm wheels. The twin tails could mean that his largest and most impressive wheels could turn in either of two directions. I'm just guessing about all this. (Btw. Your analysis of MT85 a few blogs back really impressed me.)
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