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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/

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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...

Very nicely done jb! Glad to see you have kept the original picture geometry, I would recommend keeping everything original including the other letters and the paper size and position of print on it, as B hid info in every aspect of his works.

It's from AP, don't know whose translation that is though, below is from JC's AP: (53) Nun diesen Brief gab’ ich behende In eines großen Gönners Hände; Der wolte dieses Reimelein Herr Gärtner lassen liefern ein. Drauf ließ Herr Gärtner sich belieben, Hat eigenhändig mir geschrieben; Sein Brief war k...

I think that if the weights have a circular trajectory, they form a virtual wheel with a displaced axis but do not create an imbalance but it remains a view of the mind! the unbalanced weights on the rim side are inhibited by the weight on the hub side. Excellent description, Shadow, that is my thi...

daxwc wrote: ↑Sun Aug 11, 2024 11:39 am In MT 81 where is the NB; it is inside the fish bladder with the straight “A”.

Yes, it's so easy to fall into the trap of accepting it as poor artistry.