I’ve often mentioned how Bessler liked to leave clues disguised amongst innocent seeming text and illustrations. In other words ‘Hidden in plain sight’, something that should have been easy to spot, but in fact was so unobtrusive that nobody noticed them, or they were part of something else of little interest. Bessler used the term ‘drawing a veil over something’ and then saying ‘when I lift the veil, etc. Also in MT11, he wrote “but there is more in it than meets the eye, as will be seen when I pull back the curtain and disclose the correct principle at the right time.
So here’s the first of so many clues that I’ve lost count.
The over-numbering
In his publications, Grundlicher Bericht (GB) and Das Triumphirende (DT) all of the parts in Bessler’s illustrations were labelled and numbered. Two of his illustrations are shown below.
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In the above illustrations notice the main pillar supporting the wheel is labelled 4, not once but three times. This is a common feature of all the illustrations in both GB and DT.
It is worth noting that he had only 24 numbers to play with and if he wanted to put enough numbers available in the illustration to achieve a certain total he had to repeat as many of them as he needed. When all the numbers are added together their total is 660. To find the purpose of guiding us to this number, Bessler hides another clue within the illustration.
The clock.
One day I was idly drawing in the lines of perspective, aligning with the various parts in the illustration, in the Merseberg wheel drawing, fig 2. I noticed that they all centred on the point of rotation. I became curious when I noted that the line upon which two weights were placed were each labelled ‘8’. Could this represent the eight o’clock line on a clock face?
Yes. A quick study of the clock illustration shows the extent of the clock-face. Notice that the twelve o’clock and the three o’clock lines are accurately placed, and as shown by the small red rings, the eight o’clock line is accurate also. I had no idea why this was done, but that it was deliberate was clear and I eventually realised that the number twelve was a hint to divide the 660 total to obtain the number 55.
Yes it’s that number again, inserted in his name, and in other pictures and throughout his published books in various forms. I’ll discuss the reasons for its ubiquity later. For now I want share another piece of hidden information.
The Enlargement of Bessler’s Wheel.
There are clues available which indicate that Bessler’s wheel as shown in both GB and the DT illustrations is actually larger than shown, see the illustration below.
The meaning of one of the inconsistencies apparent in the illustrations in both fig 1 and fig 2, puzzled me for a long time. In the drawing below, I have red-circled the upper two ends of the wheel supporting pillars. Notice that they are higher than the two pairs to the left, they are green-circled. To my eye this looked wrong, and the tops of the columns are different. Why were they not all of equal height? If you look at the first two illustration you can see a short horizontal line on top of each of the two higher pillars. I discovered that they were datum points, and intended to provide a reference to further alterations to the drawing.
Given that the left end of the horizontal beam, shown in yellow below, extended just outside the wheel’s rim on the left side, I drew a circle with my compasses, centred on the wheel axle. which included its outer end. I also included the two short lines on the pillars.
The outer circle is shown in blue in the second illustration below. I mentioned earlier, the other two datum points, not outlined in red or green, which are placed just to the left of the main wheel and are shown at different heights. This confirms that the pentagram discussed earlier is deliberate,
In the illustration below, the green line is perfectly aligned with these two additional datum points as well as the hatching infill, and therefore runs parallel with the lower yellow chord which forms part of the pentagram shown many times before.
The blue circle skims the bottom of the main pillar supporting the wheel. It also just touches the point of the triangular padlock and then aligns with the right edge of the illustration.
Why the padlock is numbered 24 in the GB illustration and 42 in the DT version
It has on occasion been regarded as a typo, but in fact it was done deliberately. There is no way such carefully crafted number could accidentally been carved wrongly. In my opinion it was done for one reason - how would someone correct it without physically altering it? I believe we are meant look at it upside down in effect swapping the two numbers 4 and 2, to read 2 and 4. The picture could looked be at in a mirror, or flipped horizontally or vertically, but in the end I think Bessler intended us to simply rotate it 180 degrees.
The design hidden within the wheel drawing, includes five weighted levers. By turning the picture upside down, the next lever to fall can be seen in the illustration below.
In my last build I introduced scissor mechanisms to push the falling weighted lever further back towards the following yellow radius.
The Shadows Clues.
Note in the following illustrations the differences between how the shadows are drawn. In the DT picture the shadows cast upon the ground are changed in direction in parts of the whole picture compared with GB1. I think that the purpose of the shadow change is to create a separation of one side from the other. So the shadows under the wheel in the DT version of the Merseberg wheel point the opposite way to those on the left and to how they were first shown in the drawing of the first version of the Merseberg GB wheel.
In the first picture below, the shadows all point to the left, but in the next one you can see that the shadows under the main wheel point to the left, but those in the left half point to the right.
In the picture above I have included a close up of the two versions for ease of comparison.
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There is a lot to take in here but there is so much more, and now I’ve started I’ll keep posting more information. It does take me some time to collect and present the information in an abbreviated form so I’ll probably not post a second collection for a few days. I hope you all enjoy it and perhaps it will ignite more enthusiasm for the project and maybe we will discover the actual solution.
I’m considering opening another page on which to post any of your pictures if acceptable.
JC
Copyright ©️2026 John Collins.
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According to the witnesses, no one has ever seen a pendulum, yet this illustration is covered with them. One of two things: either the illustrator has a vivid imagination, or the witnesses are lying or failing to mention it—which is the strangest part; the rest is just the usual speculation.
ReplyDeleteBessler was the illustrator.
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There never where any pendulums. Bessler only illustrated them repeatedly and mentioned them in his books because he loved pendulums for some reason. We'll probably never know why.
DeleteSome nice introductory clues which we've all seen at various times in past blogs so nothing really "new" here.
ReplyDeleteThe number labels Bessler used do add up to 660 and when you divide by 12 you will get 55. I know if SoS was here he'd immediately tell us to multiply the 5's to get 25 and say that stands for the 25th letter of the alphabet which is Y and also the shape of the levers used in all of Bessler's wheels. That particular analysis is like a reflex for SoS!
Imo, the most important clue in the Merseburg wheel drawing of DT that JC points out is the reversal of the digits in the number 24 by the lock in the left side profile view of the drum to make it 42 in the right side full face view of the drum. JC is convinced that this is a clue from Bessler that one is to invert the right side drum drawing. Once that is done, he then uses the inverted drawing to justify the 90 degree drop of a lever as shown in the drawing above the photo of his recently disproved build as well as the whole pentagonal arrangement of levers he believes that Bessler used. (I would recommend to JC to place letter or number labels on his images in future blogs to make it easier to refer to them in comments.)
However, if some other explanation can be found for that reversal of the digits in the numbers, 24 > 42 , then it would further cast doubts on his particular design approach. I think I have that alternative explanation. The two digits are reversed simply to tell the viewer that the plane of the drum in the left side drawing has been rotated in the right side drawing. The rotation however is not through 180 degrees but only through 90 degrees in the right side drawing. This reduced angle of rotation is, imo, indicated by the slight and almost unnoticeable differences in the sizes of the numbers 2 and 4 after the rotation is performed. I also noticed that if you multiply the digits in both numbers you get 2 x 4 = 4 x 2 = 8 and this could be a clue from Bessler telling us he used 8 levers in each of the two one direction wheels that he built into the wider drum of the two directional Merseburg wheel.
What really jumped out to me was how in the DT version of the Merseburg wheel the shadow from the short tether cord near the triangular lock points in the opposite direction to the direction the shadow of the axle support beam in the right side drawing which is the opposite direction that the same short tether cord shadow points in the GB drawing! Since the light is coming from the right side open window through which the rope passes to lift the load outside of the room, that short tether rope shadow should, like the axle support beam shadow, be pointing to the left. Bessler drew it pointing to the right and it was definitely no accident. So, what does it mean? Actually, it is a very easy clue to interpret.
If you look at the short tether cord and its attached right pointing shadow, you will notice that they form an inverted number 7. This number 7 is near the lock whose pointed bottom can be considered to be a decimal point. There are 3 sides to the lock so we place the decimal point down and then write three number 7's to the right of it to get .777. The entire circumference of the drum is then used as a zero and we can now write 0.777 which, by now, I'm sure everyone recognizes is "Bessler's Lucky Ratio". It is supposed to be the location along the radius of any of Bessler's various diameter wheels where the pivots of its eight Y shaped levers were located. For example, the 12 foot Merseburg wheel's drum had a radius of 6 feet or 72 inches and we get the location of the lever pivots by multiplying that radius by 0.777. When we do that we get 72 in. x 0.777 = 56 inches so the lever pivots were located exactly 56 inches from the center of the Merseburg wheel's axle.
I've tried to separate the meat from the gravy in this first batch of clues that JC has delivered to us. But, I will be looking for truly new clues in future blogs which I'm sure he will eventually reveal to us.
Disciple of SoS
Once again, DoSoS, you have totally blown me away with your clue analyzing ability. I never noticed before how that short piece of rope and its wrong pointing shadow under the right side Kassal wheel drum in the DT drawing formed an upside down number seven. How you then used it to find yet another hidden lucky ratio clue from Bessler was top notch, imo. Seeing what you can do and comparing it to my own meager skills again reminds me of how very far I must improve to match your skills. But, I intend to get up to your level even if I have to crawl there on my hands and knees!
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DoSoS wrote:
Delete"The rotation however is not through 180 degrees but only through 90 degrees in the right side drawing. This reduced angle of rotation is, imo, indicated by the slight and almost unnoticeable differences in the sizes of the numbers 2 and 4 after the rotation is performed."
I don't see much of a difference in the sizes of the 2 and the 4 near the locks in the left and right side DT drawing. But, I do agree with you that there is a 90° rotation of the plane of the drum which is obvious. I don't think it's indicated by any difference in the sizes of the numbers, however, but rather by the orientations of the triangular face of the lock attached to both drums. On the left side we see the triangular lock face with its keyhole facing us and on the right side we still see the triangular lock face with its keyhole facing us. That is only possible if the lock itself was twisted to the right and through 90°.
Other than that I agree with how you managed to find Bessler's "Lucky Ratio" clue in the right side drawing and I suspect that Bessler's misorientation of the lock face was intentionally done there to draw people's attention to that area so that they could eventually, like you just did, find another lucky ratio clue hidden there involving the tether rope and its shadow. It's not an easy clue to find unless one already knows the value of that lucky ratio or 0.777. Good thing we know that value.
How does it help you to know this value? I'm asking in relation to what? Justify this in a few words.
Delete@anon 06:24 Read DoSoS's comment above for the answer.
DeleteYou are hiding behind what is written and it is unclear, intended for further explanation, what kind of answer is this, it is just inventions and guesses, take the answer seriously, I know that the topic is DIFFICULT.
DeleteI’m just commenting on some thoughts passing through my mind - I’m considering removing the comment facity since it ignores my posts, substituting completely stupid ideas some of which originate from a so-called soothsayer. This soothsayer predicts the future by magical means apparently. If he does there’s no place for his stuff here. So maybe I’ll just continue to post without having to suffer these trolls.
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I have no grudge against you, John, but I respect you unconditionally. I will not allow you to be humiliated by some troll who considers himself an expert.
DeleteJohn, I've known you since the beginning of this forum. You have always been faithful to the notes left by Bessler.
Let me wait a moment for a response from the troll who claims the right to comment on what we're writing here. Perhaps this isn't just an ordinary troll, because I've noticed he's intelligent, although he demands respect. We'll see if he carves an easy path for himself.
JC at bottom of this new blog wrote: "I hope you all enjoy it and perhaps it will ignite more enthusiasm for the project and maybe we will discover the actual solution."
DeleteJC in the comments to this blog wrote: "I’m considering removing the comment facity since it ignores my posts, substituting completely stupid ideas some of which originate from a so-called soothsayer. "
So far all of the comments I've seen here are inspired by those recycled clues JC just gave us. I think the real problem is that JC only invites the opinions of others here just so long as they agree with his! I always thought that this blog is supposed to allow the sharing of ideas and not just stroke JC's ego by parroting his opinions. Maybe I'm wrong about that?
IIRC he removed the comments here a few years ago and the result was that this blog died for OVER a year with few actually reading any of the very short blogs that he put up during that lapse to create the illusion that it was active. Instead of returning everyday to look for new comments here, I found myself only checking in once every few weeks. When I saw the comments were still shut off, I then promptly left for another few weeks as I'm sure others did.
Maybe he should start seriously reading the opinions of others so he can see what their reasoning was for them? Maybe that would finally get him on the right path and off of his current one that only led to another nonrunner? I think JC is in a snit because he's seeing that people here don't seem to be too convinced by his pentagon approach to B's wheels and, imo, that's completely understandable considering that recent TSM's sim showing the design based on that approach was unworkable.
Thank you for both your comments. In the latter one I would dispute your suggestion that all the responses are inspired by the recycled clues you say I gave you, most of them I’ve never shared before. I did remove the comment facility a while ago, and that was for the same reason as now.
DeleteWhen I began to post updates I restarted the comment section and the comments were excellent, concentrating on the contents of the post. Then the silly comments started, pretending to be a soothsayer predicting the future; ignoring my sound clues and claiming that Ken B’s clues were the right ones. Anyone with an ounce of common sense would dismiss all of his so-called clues; they don’t exist and they are invisible to anyone else, except to his tortured psyche.
Bessler’s lucky ratio is not 0.777, nor anything else. He never looked for one.
There are geometric patterns in Bessler’s works, but only as part of his hidden in plain sight clues. Also alphanumerics; RoT13 or the Caesar shift; chronograms. Also Roman numerals which are uniquely composed of seven Latin capital letters—I, V, X, L, C, D, M—so they can function as both letters and numerical values. Ambiguous text which conveys two meanings.
There is so much more to discover, so why would we wish to pursue meaningless, baseless drivel, as promoted by Ken B and his disciples?
JC
@anon 14:57
DeleteAfter reading your comment I got a deja vu feeling all over again! You mention that "lapse" that happened years ago and IIRC its pattern looked similar to what's happening now. John was posting some of his clues and people were finding different interpretations for them. That really irritated him because he realized he was not able to indoctrinate them with HIS interpretations of the clues. His solution was just to shut everything down. Months later he came back and allowed comments but not anonymous ones. Finally after he realized this blog was dead he put the anonymous commenting back and the blog slowly returned to normal. Part of that was due, imo, to him believing that during the lapse he was finally going to get his pet pentagon wheel to work and he would no longer need this blog to get some attention. That never happened so, as boredom set in, he needed to resurrect his blog again which, that time, he managed to do. But will that happen again if there is another "lapse"? Maybe not and it could finally be the end of this blog forever as an active one with a lot of visitors. Then we may only see him pop in occasionally on bwf to let everyone know he's still alive and to try to drive some traffic from there over to here to hopefully sell some books to them.
It’s not indoctrination anon 14:57, it’s just using common sense without relying on magic. Magic includes the use of rituals, spells, or supernatural forces to influence natural beings. It includes stage illusion (conjuring) for entertainment, high/low ritualistic practices, and symbolic, magical thinking. Synonyms include sorcery, enchantment, witchcraft, wizardry, illusion, and charm. Usage spans folklore, fantasy literature, and entertainment.
DeleteIt’s these charlatans I’m trying to dig out of my blogs with their fake claims. But fear not I’ll simply remove the comment facility once and for all along with this infestation..
JC
@JC
DeleteIf you are implying that SoS is a "charlatan" who makes "face claims", then I must strongly disagree with such a false claim. Over the years, he has revealed MANY new clues to us based on actual ones he found in the Bessler drawings that no one, especially you, ever noticed before! He has enlightened us to the methods that Bessler used to conceal the details of his wheels. If not for his efforts, I probably would not have taken an interest in the subject.
Inspired by the new clue near the triangle lock that DoSoS found in that Merseburg wheel drawing, I decided to go over the drawing as carefully as I could and I actually found ANOTHER amazing clue in it that is "hidden in plain sight" and which I think is VERY important. I had intended to reveal it here to show I was making progress in my efforts to become a serious clue finder like DoSoS and SoS. But, after reading your comments above, I'm starting to feel like me and my clue finding efforts are no longer welcome here! I'm now debating with myself whether or not I should reveal this entirely new clue at this time because I wouldn't want to "irritate" you by presenting another clue which I doubt you were even aware of.
I've always believed that the more clues we have the better, but it seems like your philosophy is that the more clues we have the better so long as YOU are the only one providing all of those clues. This shows me how little regard you really have for the opinions of other serious Bessler researchers even though you occasionally claim that you do. It's not enough to "talk the talk", you also have to "walk the walk". So are people like me who want to find new clues in the Bessler drawings that you and others are unaware of still welcome here or not? If not, then I will continue my clue hunting in private and those that still come here can settle for a steady diet of whatever you decide to feed them. I also wouldn't want to give you the opportunity to delete any more material that you consider to be an "infestation" on this blog! Whenever I've revealed anything here that I've found, it is the result of much work by me and I find it offensive to see it described as an "infestation" especially by someone whose "verified" clues only added another dead duck design to our pile of them!
Brad
John has always had the opportunity to post his thoughts, ideas, & reveals, on his personal forum at BW.com. It is less of the wild west & bottom-feeders than here.
DeleteJohn's blog and his approach has always been about deciphering codes and "clues" and his interpretations. This should be respected but often isn't by abusers. BW.com is mainly about the potential mechanics of a Bessler runner with cross-over into ciphers and codes etc. There you are required to sign in as a member to make a comment and it is largely self-policing because of the way it was established. It attempts to strike the right balance between freedom of speech and respect and tolerance for others. Fools soon get found out.
Delete@Brad. Despite what John said, I consider you, DoSoS, and SoS most welcome here and I have enjoyed seeing those truly new clues you all are finding. Imo, we need more members here like you guys who take the subject serious enough to invest your time and talents in finding some answers. So, please do share whatever new clue you found with us. Then if John deletes it and insults you while he's doing it, that will just show everyone how really intolerant (maybe even actually scared!) he is of the research of others that does not support his particular and, so far, ineffective approach to Bessler's wheels.
DeleteI used to be a follower of the many threads over on bwf for years until I finally realized I was learning NOTHING of any value about Bessler's wheels there despite the name
of the website. Maybe it was good for promoting interest in Bessler's wheels and advancing our understanding of them years ago, but of late it's just a ongoing collection of short babbling posts, rarely backed up with any drawings, where you get the read about someone's recent failed design or what they plan to do eventually. I don't have time to waste on that kind of material anymore. I suspect that there are now only a handful of still active members who actually follow the comments there.
I started coming to this blog because I actually saw some progress being made here for a change. Now it looks like this place is also at risk of going down the drain like bwf has. It's really a shame because, once this place turns into a mini-bwf, you can all forget about seeing anything new being revealed. All you will get is more rehash of John's past posted "clues" because he really doesn't have any new ones for us. Remember after the failure of his five scissor mechanism "BWA 1.0" design he said that he had found more rope clues that could turn it into a runner? That was last month and, instead of showing them to us so they could be sim tested, he forgets all about them and just starts pulling items out of his never published "Bessler clue book" for us!
Like some others here, I think he's convinced that he's some sort of reincarnation of Bessler and destined to live his life like Bessler did. He keeps struggling to get a working pm wheel just like Bessler did. That unpublished clue book of his serves as his equivalent of MT! A few years ago he even fell off of a high ladder and almost had an ending similar to Bessler's! Bessler was also interested in suppressing the pm research of rivals by his use of misdirection and insults and John now tries to suppress any new clues that show up here by others that don't support his approach while also insulting them and their efforts. Just coincidences? Maybe...maybe not. 🤔
John pays for this blog, he maintains it, and he will always set the rules. If someone doesn't like something, let them start their own blog and troll as much as they want, but on their own.
DeleteJohn will publish with or without the option to post, and no one will constantly demand new toys because John wrote something and didn't keep his word. Everyone has their own limitations and freedom to express their thoughts, or maybe they just wanted to forget. What's it to you?
"John pays for this blog..."
DeleteWRONG! BlogSpot is owned by Google and allows you to create and host a blog for free. Those who invest their time here with detailed comments probably put as much if not more into it than he does and they deserve some respect not to mention occasional gratitude. Insulting other people and their opinions is not a sign of respect. Many would say that he thinking only he has all of the answers or the potential to solve the Bessler wheel mystery is the height of arrogance.
"John will publish with or without the option to post..."
Yes, he has that option just as those faithful long time visitors here have the option to delete the link to this blog from their bookmark bars and never return again. After he sees his visitor count drop way down, he'll realize what a big mistake he made. He made that same mistake several times in the past and was lucky to be able to recover from it. That may not happen the next time.
"...no one will constantly demand new toys because John wrote something and didn't keep his word."
Getting quick ego trips by constantly promising more than one can or intends to deliver indicates a person whose priority is mainly himself and not others. He used this blog to ego trip for years until everyone got so fed up with it that they demanded to see some proof of his claims. It turned out to be just another over hyped design that wound up right on top of our dead duck pile of them with all of the others there. Despite that, he will no doubt continue to push it hoping that he can find some new clues, only his own of course, that will finally turn it into a runner. I'm sure most here hope that happens for him, but that does not mean they do not want to see what ideas others may have on the subject.
I note the triumphant capitalised “WRONG”, shouting is what most people call it, yes my blog is free, but my websites which have been running longer than the blog cost me a lot. I used to run seven but recently cut down to five and next month down to three. The cost of maintaining them is more than I can afford now and I keep the blog because it’s free for now, but who knows when I will have let them all go.
DeleteDespite your accusations this is not an ego trip, just my attempt to draw the words attention to this amazing invention. I’ve invested a lot of money over the years, paid to have my five books translated, printed and published, all in the sim of spreading the word about Bessler’s invention. I’ve always hoped that someone would discover his solution before I give up.
JC
Sorry, typo should read “world’s” attention and “sim” should read “aim”. JC
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Your clock face actually looks better than JC's!
DeleteI haven’t finished with my version of the clock face as there is more information within it that I planned to share in a new post. It relates to other drawings and textual clues which indicate that the weight only has to be lifted 30 degrees.
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If you want to find the position of the clock face numbers at the rim it is very easy - draw horizontal and vertical lines at exactly half radius - that is exactly the 30 degrees mark ( 1 hr ) - from 12 to 2 o'cl (60 degs) is half vertical distance and 2/3rds the rim distance compared to from 2 to 3 o'cl (30 degs) which is also half the vertical distance but 1/3rd the rim distance .
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Thanks for the friendly greeting which I appreciate. It did much to neutralize the bad feelings I got from being referred to as an "infestation". As a result, I've decided to share the new clue I recently found in the DT drawing of the Merseburg wheel. I was impressed as usual with DoSoS's analysis and in particular with how he found Bessler's Lucky Ratio clue given by the triangle lock and the upside down 7. I'd never really looked that much at the Merseburg wheel drawings because they tend to be complicated and a little too overwhelming for me. But I found myself motivated by DoSoS's discovery and decided to see if I might be able to make my own little discovery because he has said that I need the practice if I'm ever to become as skilled at clue detection as he and SoS are.
I looked for about half an hour and saw nothing, but then I noticed something that caught my attention. In the right side drawing of the wheel's full face drum you will notice that the cutaway edge of the wall containing the window appears to run behind the wheel. That seemed out of place and I was ready to dismiss it as something done only for the sake of the drawing. But, no, something told me to see what would happen if I drew in the missing vertical edge of the wall that is hidden by the right side of the drum. My drawing was made using ms paint. I always use the older version which is much easier to use imo than the newer one that they try to push on everyone.
That didn't seem to mean anything but then I decided to draw another horizontal line from the center of axle out to the right edge of the drum. Now I had two perpendicular lines and they crossed at a particular point on the drum. Did it mean anything? I soon found out that it certainly did!
In the drawing I made the missing vertical edge of the wall was filled in with a dark blue line and the horizontal line from the center of the axle was made with a red red. Paint conveniently shows you the height and width of lines in pixels at the bottom of the drawing you are making. When I measured the dark blue vertical line it was about 117 pixels long (I say about because the number can change a little depending on how you stretch the line between two points in a drawing) and the red horizontal line was about 151 pixels.
So what one might say about the lengths of those two perpendicular lines that cross at a certain point on the face of the big 12 foot diameter wheel's drum? It turns out that if you take the ratio of the two lengths you get 117 pixels /151 pixels = 0.775 and that is VERY close to 0.777 which is Bessler's Lucky Ratio again! The intersection point of the two lines is then the exact point inside of the drum where the pivots of its levers were located. As DoSoS pointed out, you get that important distance by multiplying the radius of a Bessler wheel by the Lucky Ratio so for a 12 foot diameter drum which has a radius of 6 feet or 72 inches you get 72 inches x 0.777 = 56 inches. That means that the point where those two lines cross in the Merseburg wheel drawing would have been exactly 56 inches away from the center of the axle.
Brad
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DeleteHere's a simple drawing I made that shows everything and should make what I'm describing as clear as possible. Supposedly, this huge two direction wheel Bessler built actually contained TWO thinner one way wheels but only one of them at a time was used to drive its wide drum in a particular direction. If so, that means its drum actually contained a total of 16 levers only 8 of which were used at a time when the wheel was turning! If we assume the two one direction wheels were side by side then its possible that each pivot which would have been a straight rod that actually had two levers mounted on it and arranged to swing in opposite directions as needed. Since the Merseburg wheel drum was 12 inches in thickness that means it would have used eight steel pivots each of which was 12 inches in length.
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Again, thanks to anon 00:14 for the warm greeting and to DoSoS for again inspiring me to push myself to get some results. At first glance the Bessler drawings can seem overwhelming and make one think they are just technical drawings with no other information contained in them. Imo that is exactly the impression Bessler wanted people looking at them to have. Just so complicated that it's better for the average reader to skip them and keep on reading the words of his book. Only maybe only one in hundreds who got a copy of one of Bessler's books really studied his drawings in depth. You have to do it by just focusing on one section at a time and trying to squeeze as much of the numerology and symbolism out of it as possible. DoSoS was right. It is a skill but it can only be developed with a lot of practice.
Brad
Hmm...when I reread my comment I noticed something that could definitely be confusing when I wrote at the end of the first part "When I measured the dark blue vertical line it was about 117 pixels long..." I did not measure the vertical length of the dark blue line. Rather I measured the HORIZONTAL distance between the center of the axle and the point where the dark blue vertical line of the missing section of the background wall edge crosses the red horizontal line that is the radius of the drum. So the distance of 117 pixels is from the axle center to the crossing point where the lever pivots were located and the distance of 151 pixels is from the axle center to the outermost rim of the drum which is the radius of the drum actually equal to 72 inches on the real Merseburg wheel. Sorry for any confusion that the last two paragraphs in the first part of my comment may have caused. I'm more of a numerologist than a geometry expert!
DeleteGood job, Brad. It looks like even more evidence of how important that particular ratio was to Bessler. My question is why would clues for it show up all over the place? I can think of only one possible reason. Bessler must have also hid the specs for the other parts of his pm wheels in of his drawings. Anyone trying to duplicate a Bessler wheel always had to make sure that he placed his lever pivots at the exact distance from the wheel's axle center that was equal to the wheel's radius x 0.777 if the duplicate wheel was to stay OB as it turned. If he did not use that exact ratio, then whatever wheel he constructed could never work. So that ratio of 0.777 is kind of like a foundational value for the construction of Bessler's wheels and MUST be used during construction to finally get a working pm wheel.
DeleteIn a past blog someone (might have been SoS) suggested that there was probably a religious reason that Bessler used to justify selecting that particular ratio which he would have selected BEFORE determining the specs of the other parts of his wheels' mechanisms. It had something to do with Jesus telling his apostle Peter that he needed to forgive someone not just seven times, but seventy seven times. That gives you three sevens that Bessler simply put together to get 777 and then he added the decimal point in to get 0.777. There's also some clue in the second DT portrait of Bessler that someone noticed showing the seven "mouths" of the background organ that look like they are leading up to Bessler's ear. There are also hovering cherubs on the front of the organ and the suggestion is that those little baby angels, who are supposed to be messengers for God, delivered the secret of pm right into Bessler's mind. So, this could be another reason for his selection of the 0.777 ratio. It was a way for Bessler to express his gratitude to God for taking mercy on him for his suffering and allowing him to achieve pm.
People tend to forget how very religious Bessler was. His main reason for inventing a pm wheel was actually so he could sell it and then use the huge sum he collected to start his own religious trade school which he intended to use to spread HIS version of Christianity all over the world! IOW, his pm wheels were only a means to achieve a higher goal that he had. IIRC he also wrote a book about his version of Christianity but JC never made an English translation of it available to us. FAWK, it might also contain some clues about how his pm wheels worked. I wonder if he had any drawings in it. If so, I'd certainly like to see them.
@Brad
DeleteExcellent find you've made there. Yes, that lucky Bessler ratio of 0.777 seems to be popping up more and more of late and I find myself agreeing with anon 20:06 that it is some sort of base value that one must use when trying to reconstruct an exact replica of one of Bessler's wheels. I also agree that to successfully do that, Bessler had to leave other precise value clues in his drawings for the various parts like levers, ropes, springs, and weights that he used inside of his wheels. Finding all of them, however, I suspect will be a lot more difficult than just finding his single lucky ratio's value. But, one will not even try to find them unless he is sure they are there somewhere to start with. I do think they are there and we've probably seen and were completely unaware of them since we first saw any of Bessler's drawings.
You also wrote "That seemed out of place and I was ready to dismiss it as something done only for the sake of the drawing. But, no, something told me to see what would happen if I drew in the missing vertical edge of the wall that is hidden by the right side of the drum."
That "something" in your mind that made you focus on that very difficult to find clue could not have just been random chance, imo. It must have been your inner psychic power starting to awaken! No doubt that is the result your constant straining to find the various Bessler clues in the drawings. Well, definitely keep that straining up because, as you do, your psychic power should increase in strength. You have to think of it like a muscle that has not been used much. But, with exercise, it can grow bigger and stronger. Who knows, maybe with enough practice you might even become the next SoS on this blog!
Disciple of SoS
PS. Right now I feel like you are about 60% of the way to becoming a full fledged disciple of SoS! You can be justly proud of your achievement. Congratulations!
Anon 20:06 wrote:
Delete"IIRC he also wrote a book about his version of Christianity...it might also contain some clues about how his pm wheels worked. I wonder if he had any drawings in it. If so, I'd certainly like to see them."
You aren't the only one who would like to see some previously unknown drawings done by Bessler. I'll poke around on the net and maybe I can find them. If so, I'll be posting them here as soon as possible. Wish me luck!
Maybe this info can help you, anon 02:16:
DeleteBessler actually wrote two books on religion and they are:
A.) “Der recht-glaubige Orffyreer: oder Die einige Vereinigung der uneinigen Christen in Glaubens-Sachen” (1723) which translates to: "The Right-Believing Orffyrean, or The Union of Disunited Christians in Matters of Faith."
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B.) “Kurtz verfaßter und unumstößlicher Inbegriff Der allerreinesten Christen-Religion” (1724) which translates to "Short and Unshakeable Summary of the Purest Christian Religion."
They are very rare works with only a few physical copies still in existence, but with luck you might find digital copies of them hidden away in a German university library or rare book collection somewhere.
Thank you so very much anon 03:35! With those German titles I was able to locate two online sources for their digital copies.
DeleteHis first 1723 religious book was in the Bavarian State Library. You can see its pages here:
https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb10690227?page=,1
That first religious book of his must have been too much for the average reader back then to digest because Bessler followed it up the next year 1724 with a shorter summary version. I found an online digital copy of it at the Hamburg University Library. You can see its pages here:
https://digitalisate.sub.uni-hamburg.de/recherche/detail?tx_dlf%5Bid%5D=10644&tx_dlf%5Bpage%5D=1&cHash=b5084b818c0f5354a5b6f3793c6e2113
I don't have time to go through both volumes now, but intend to soon. If anybody else wants to beat me to it, then feel free to do so and either provide links to the pages with drawings on them or copy the drawings, upload them to postimages.org, and then post the links to them here. Anything that looks like it was drawn could contain more hidden clues about Bessler's pm wheels for this blog's clue seekers to analyze. That includes actual drawings, logos, drop caps, decorative swirls, etc. Even though these works supposedly deal strictly with religious philosophy, I don't think Bessler could resist the opportunity to also slip some pm wheel clues into them.
They might point to a Rosetta Stone or Key of why B. included the bible verses in AP and how to "read" them and their meaning .
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DeleteI went through the 40 pages of the second short summary religious book Bessler did and only found one drawing of some capital letter on the first page which you can see here:
https://dfg-viewer.de/show?tx_dlf%5Bdouble%5D=0&tx_dlf%5Bid%5D=https%3A%2F%2Fmets.sub.uni-hamburg.de%2Fkitodo%2FPPN893987026&tx_dlf%5Bpage%5D=3&cHash=4d68ea44d529a7d14d9e32b485da62e6
It just looks like a bunch of decorative leaves used to form some German letter, but I have no idea which letter. I don't see anything in it or else where in the book that looks mechanical. Maybe someone else can make something out of it?
I'm back and I just finished going through all 176 pages of Bessler's first religious book of 1723. All I found was one decorative thing near the bottom of page 20 which you can view here:
Deletehttps://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb10690227?page=20
I can make out what look like some cartoonish profiles of a sad face in it and it definitely looks like Bessler's style of drawing. I'm not sure what it's supposed to be...maybe a suffering Jesus or something? Anyway, it does not look like a mechanical clue to me. I think we can safely eliminate these two religious books as containing any of his pm wheel clues so it's probably good JC did not waste money having them translated into English for us.
Now you guys have done it! With all of your babblings about the number 7, I'm starting to see them everywhere and I'm even dreaming about them! I may need to get some therapy or even meds to finally get them out of my brain. Thanks a bunch! Here's what I found just looking at that damn Merseburg wheel drawing you're all talking about:
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If I never see that damn number again, it will be too soon! 7️⃣7️⃣7️⃣7️⃣7️⃣7️⃣7️⃣😱
OMG, DoSoS!
DeleteMy "inner psychic power is starting to awaken" and I "might even become the next SoS on this blog" and I'm "about 60% of the way to becoming a full fledged disciple of SoS"!!! That is music to my ears and a dream come true for me. It's what I've been struggling for with my clue finding efforts on this blog. Thank you so much for those very encouraging words. They will help motivate me to look even harder for new clues in the Bessler drawings.
Brad (aka the future full fledged disciple of SoS!)
he seems a bit preoccupied
DeleteThere have been many well researched cases of paranormal phenomena that people have experienced over the years and most of them were real although unexplainable by current science. I also believe that all people have psychic powers which we evolved over millions of year to enhance the survival of our species, but in our "modern" age they tend to be underdeveloped because a lot of "scientists" think it makes them look smarter by denying their reality. If they were real scientists, they would be researching them instead of ridiculing them and the few who do take the subject seriously and research them. IIRC, when SoS was here years ago he said that his psychic abilities were able to pick up faint impressions from the Bessler drawings that would lead him to various clues Bessler hid in them. He probably demonstrated that ability to us a dozen or more times! Now it looks like Brad is experiencing the same thing. Some people may just dismiss it all as lucky hunches, but after you have enough of those "lucky" hunches, you start to realize something more than random chance is at work.
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