Posted by grim (206.162.192.40) on February 07, 2003 at 07:04:15:
In Reply to: Re: Karls payroll posted by John Collins on February 06, 2003 at 23:26:00:
Hi John
Unfortunately I boarded this boat too late to get a copy of your book, so I have no reference point as to what has been researched. Therefore when David brought up the point of some sort of "conpiracy", the only course available here was to do a little digging into backgrounds from various sources, since noone seemed to want to answer his allegations.
And I did state that I would POSSIBLY look more dimly on Wolff's any any other witness's opinion of the device, for the simple reason that any skeptic would say "they wouldn't bite the hand that feeds them". Therefore, the most important witness in my opinion is Gravensande, a man from Holland, no ties to Hesse-Kassel, that reported his findings of observation
of the externals of the device as "no fraud found" to Isaac Newton himself. With this testimony from an independent investigator, it appears that all avenues for the skeptics are exhausted, even if I DID eliminate all Hesse-Kassel eyewitnesses.
Speaking of books, what's the status of your new one?
Respectfully yours,
grim