{"id":1601,"date":"2011-01-29T02:15:57","date_gmt":"2011-01-29T06:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sj\/?p=1601"},"modified":"2011-01-29T02:16:32","modified_gmt":"2011-01-29T06:16:32","slug":"a-patent-alternative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/2011\/01\/29\/a-patent-alternative\/","title":{"rendered":"A patent alternative: aaaaaagmmnrr"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hooke liked to note discoveries he had made before he had found time to exlpain and prove his discoveries.\u00a0 He used the simple mechanich of anagramming an entire phrase:<\/p>\n

The true Mathematical and Mechanichal form of all manner of ARches for Building, with the true butment necessary to each of them.<\/em> A Problem which no Architectonick<\/em> Writer hath ever yet attempted, much less performed. abcccddeeeeefggiiiiiiiillmmmmnnnnnooprrsssttttttuuuuuuuux<\/strong><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This code, not decrypted during Hooke’s life, was revealed on his death to anagram to: Ut pendet continuum flexile, sic stabit contiguum rigidum inversum<\/strong> — “As hangs a flexible cable, so inverted, stand the touching pieces of an arch”.\u00a0 The modest original context follows;From an appendix to Hooke’s”Description of Helioscopes”, as published<\/a> in Lectiones Cutlerian\u00e6<\/em>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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To fill the vacancy of the ensuing page, I have here added a decimat<\/em> of the centesme<\/em> of the Inventions I intend to publish, though possibly not in the same order, but as I can get opportunity and leasure; most of which, I hope, will be as useful to Mankind, as they are yet unknown and new.<\/p>\n

1. A way of Regulating all sorts of Watches or <\/em>Timekeepers, so as to make any way to equalize, if not exceed the <\/em>Pendulum-Clocks now used.<\/em>
\n2.The true Mathematical and Mechanichal form of all manner of ARches for Building, with the true butment necessary to each of them.<\/em> A Problem which no Architectonick<\/em> Writer hath ever yet attempted, much less performed. abcccddeeeeefggiiiiiiiillmmmmnnnnnooprrsssttttttuuuuuuuux<\/strong>
\n3. The true Theory of <\/em>Elasticity or <\/em>Springiness, and a particular Explication thereof in several Subjects in which it is to be found: and the way of computing the velocity of Bodies moved by them. <\/em> ceiiinosssttuu<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The third anagrams to a mnemonic for Hooke’s Law: ut vis, sic tensio<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hooke liked to note discoveries he had made before he had found time to exlpain and prove his discoveries.\u00a0 He used the simple mechanich of anagramming an entire phrase: The true Mathematical and Mechanichal form of all manner of ARches for Building, with the true butment necessary to each of them. A Problem which no […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1202,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[210,205,207,211,213,214,215,709],"tags":[289,30823,30822,30815,6317,30813,30816,16135,381,30814,15471,30819],"class_list":["post-1601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chain-gang","category-glory-glory-glory","category-indescribable","category-international","category-metrics","category-poetic-justice","category-too-weird-for-fiction","category-wikipedia","tag-academia","tag-anagramarama","tag-arches","tag-clocks","tag-engineering","tag-hooke","tag-inventions","tag-journals","tag-patents","tag-pendulums","tag-publication","tag-springiness"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iVvB-pP","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1601"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1605,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601\/revisions\/1605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}