The Prime Mover.

[ArchCalc]

In Shakespeare, Hamlet tells Horatio that "there are more things in heaven and Earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy."

[daxwc]

"I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw."

[gravitationallychallenged]

I'm not very familiar with most of Shakespeare's writings so I guess I wouldn't be considered a cultured individual. I am familiar with Bessler's, though, and he said that he allowed his friends to remove the bolts in the axle of the wheel that regulated the motion of the wheel's mechanism. Is it madness to assume those words indicate the prime mover's location?

[daxwc]

gravitationallychallenged: I'm not very familiar with most of Shakespeare's writings so I guess I wouldn't be considered a cultured individual. I am familiar with Bessler's, though, and he said that he allowed his friends to remove the bolts in the axle of the wheel that regulated the motion of the wheel's mechanism. Is it madness to assume those words indicate the prime mover's location?I

It would have been easier to ask the maid to slow down ;)

[gravitationallychallenged]

Since the bearing support posts weren't equipped with any mechanism to turn the wheel, the maid's power of telekinesis must have been extremely powerful! I wonder how far away her living quarters were from the wheel in Karl's castle?