Posted by John Collins (194.164.38.106) on January 29, 2003 at 23:41:08:
In Reply to: Re: Bessler biographical question for John Collins posted by grim on January 29, 2003 at 18:38:03:
: Thanks John, that was helpful.
: The lecture that you spoke of, that was "published 10 years later", have you ever had the chance to read it, or is it available somewhere, possibly on the web?
: I would love to see that gentleman's "reasoning" behind why Bessler's device wouldn't work, may be able to reverse his reasoning and find out why it did.
: As you know, Ptolemy used to "reason" why things "were" or "weren't" quite a bit, and, well, Hoop-da-wee-bee! He was wrong a LOT.
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: Thanks again,
: grim
Yes I have a copy of the entire lecture grim, but don't get your hopes up that it will help. I haven't looked at it for a couple of years and maybe I missed something. I'll dig it out and post it here, but give me a day or two to find it and scan it and post it.
John C.