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Heh SHADOW where did you get that drawing? I mean I have it, but not to that detail. Do you know where it is on a website? dax, the link for the full 161 MB tiff image is here: https://orka.bibliothek.uni-kassel.de/viewer/api/v1/records/1580978770615/files/images/0000025.tif/full/max/0/default.tif?...

Could the wheel have been trying to precess, and hence the need for the floor to ceiling supports?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5bKzBZ7XuM

Any other takes on this ? Might need a better quality pic of his engraving to clearly see B down low - I can see it and his words say it is there iinm .. Maybe Trev has a high quality drawing. I know I wouldn't have kept anything that wasn't Bessler's. Definitely A & B dax: http://vftshop.com/i...

"It would have been difficult, in the face of all this, for anyone to pluck up the courage to make new efforts. The net result of it all was sure to be the same as last time. But I doubt if anyone, in any country, has ever had the patience and diligence I showed in my obsessive fancy. While ot...

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Fletcher wrote: ↑Sun Jan 26, 2025 9:22 pm Comment .. B. took the care and effort to identify and include joint pivots in some of his TP woodcut toys, but not in others ..

Fletcher, It's a wonder you can see anything on that dreadful scan ;)

Looks like GeoGebra, I've been teaching myself to use it over the winter: https://softradar.com/geogebra/download/5.0.104.0/de/

Last active here on the forum in March. You can send him an email through the forum if you wish to communicate with him:

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I got so fed up with shouting at it and turning it off, I gave up on MSM 20 years ago.
You can lie to some of the people some of the time, but you cant lie to all the people all of the time.

Excellent analysis as always Fletcher, I look forward to future installments.

I'm with Fletcher and dax, gravity wasn't the fuel - the same as it's not the fuel for my hydro-electric generator which is powering my computer to write this post, but without gravity neither would work.

Superb JB! :)

i will revise some things i noticed with these ones , and replace the other text , i can honestly say i experience a tiny bit of the amount of effort , Bessler must have worked his hands to the bone creating MT. Excellent work jb! Do you mind me asking what software you use, and if you plan on doin...