MT Updated

[ovyyus]

Hi Stewart,

I have all the translations of MT notes but am presently unable to share them as they are not mine. Hopefully this situation will change soon or perhaps someone will come forth with an alternative version I can post - I'm working on it!

[ovyyus]

Hi Scott,

Thanks, but my efforts are ultimately self-directed :) I don't care who solves Bessler's puzzle as long as someone does - preferably in my lifetime! I believe the best chance of that happening is through release of all available historical data into the public arena. Nothing would please me more than to wake up tomorrow morning and discover that someone, somewhere in the World, has finally cracked it.

Yes, I agree that MT contains encoded information or at least information that fullfills it's introduction. It seems unlikely that a man of such extremes would leave nothing behind to prove his claim after death. I doubt he jumped without leaving the ultimate suicide note but at 65 years of age perhaps Bessler had resigned himself to the fact that sale of his wheel was not going to happen and arranged his notes accordingly.

Illustrations in MT have accompanying hand written commentary only up to MT54. From 54 on, with the exception of the toys page, Bessler has nothing to say. IMO, it's possible that he said all he needed to say and illustrated his full intentions within those first 54 drawing/descriptions.

[MrTim]

My take on MT is this:

• Bessler stated on the first page that clues to the secret are contained in the document.
• There are numerous anomalies/mistakes in the plates that often appear intentional, such as multiple versions of A’s, 2’s, and 1’s on the same plate.
• Whether Bessler actually fell or jumped to his death remains an open question. If he jumped, then surely he would have known that the MT plates would be found and printed after his death.

To me, these three facts together lend support to the idea that Bessler might indeed have placed some sort of secret code into the MT plates, just waiting to be discovered today…
-Scott

Or another possibility.....
That he didn't include the relevant drawings at the time, intending to add them at a later date when he published MT (and of course, he never did.)
That said, I believe he did leave a small clue somewhere in it, but not enough to actually re-construct the entire mechanism. A teaser until the end....