Bowlerizing for Brunswick
Art Neuendorffer
FREDERICK II ("the Great")( 1754-1816): King of Prussia;
initiated in 1738 in a special Lodge called at BRUNSWICK;
Protector of Masons in the National Grand Lodge of Germany.
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<<Heinrich Julius, Duke of BRUNSWICK-Wolfenbuettel (d. 1613),
was the first to write German dramas in prose instead of verse.>>
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Elizabeth Weir wrote:
> It may look like the forerunner of the comic book but the incredible
> frontispiece of the 'Cryptomenytices et Cryptographia' reveals--panel
> by panel--the Stratford actor's true role in the Shakespeare's plays.
>
> The 'Cryptomenytices' was the life work of the Duke of BRUNSWICK
> who published it in 1624 under the pseudonym Gustavus Selenus.
> <http://home.att.net/~mleary/gifs/SELENI.JPG>
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http://home.att.net/~mleary/baco1.htm
The following is from Baconiana, June 1956, by T. Wright:
<<There is some remarkable evidence in that mysterious book on Cryptography
published on the Continent at Luneburg in 1624, and attributed to Gustavus
Selenus, alias Trithemius, alias Man in the Moon. This book
(Cryptomenticies) was fathered by the Duke of BRUNSWICK and dedicated to
"Dr. Francisco, Antonio, London, Anglo, Seniori," which fully identifies
Francis and Anthony Bacon. The author refers to Camden's Remains and to
Francis Bacon's part in the production of Annals of Elizabeth; but it is the
titlepage that is of greatest significance, for there is disclosed the truth
concerning the authorship of Shakespeare. This titlepage consists of four
pictorial panels, each drawn in great detail, not at the whim of the
engraver, but under the precise directions of the Duke of BRUNSWICK, and
thus they were intended to serve a definite purpose. J. Phinney Baxter
states in The Greatest of Literary Problems that these instructions are
still extant and have been read by him. If my reader would enjoy the
fascination of profitable detective investigation, let him give this
titlepage his close attention and arrive at his own solution. It is
suggested that there will be detected the Duke of BRUNSWICK placing the cap
of maintenance upon the head of Francis Bacon, who is seated and writing
some document of Folio size; and Bacon in a rural setting, handing some
document to the rustic actor Will Shakspere, who is seen jounrying on foot
to some city. Also to be seen are the long-sword, broad-spear, shotbolt,
wagstaff and walking staff, all of which are mentioned in that one paragraph
in Camden's Remains. Yet further will be seen, the actor now well-mounted on
horseback, but with a spur exaggeraedly drawn. Why should a foreign prince
thus devote the titlepage of his serious work on Cryptography, printed and
published abroad, to the authorship of the English "Shakespeare?" Why refer
to an insignificant work, not on Cryptography, by the Englishman Camden, and
mention that the latter's most important work was finally edited by Francis
Bacon? The explanation is, of course, that the Duke of BRUNSWICK and Camden
were members of that secret society which Bacon had created for the working
out of his life's ideal, the advancement of learning, of which "Shakespeare"
was an integral part. In BACONIANA, No. I37, above referred to, is shown a
remarkable composite portrait, which is in the Bibliotheque Nationale,
Paris.
Ostensibly, it is a variant of the authentic portrait of the Duke of
BRUNSWICK, having the same setting and surrounds, but only half of the face
and body represent the Duke. In the other half (the righthand side) the face
is that of Francis Bacon, as seen in the Van Somer portrait of him, while
the body is clothed in an impossible 'lefthanded' coat, as in the socalled
portrait of William Shakespeare by Droeshout, in the Shakespeare Folio. The
opinion of an expert iconographer, John Clennell, is that this composite
picture was done by one or more of the Dutch artists, the Van Somer brothers
or Daniel Metteus, and engraved by the Droeshout group. Such infinite
trouble would not have been taken without some definite purpose, and that
could only have been to direct attention to the close liaison that existed
between Francis Bacon, William Shakespeare and the Duke; and to the
lastnamed's book, where Camden also is introduced, and the titlepage reveals
Francis Bacon's use of Will Shakspere as a mask.
Regarding the Droeshout engraving of Shakespeare: "The tunic, coat, or
whatever the garment may have been called at the time, is so strangely
illustrated that the right hand-side of the forepart is obviously the
left-hand side of the backpart, and so give[s] a harlequin appearance to the
figure, which it is not unnatural to assume was intentional and done with
express object and purpose" (Gentlemen's Tailor Magazine April 1911) "It
will be seen that the eyes are both drawn as right eyes instead of the
normal right and left. This was discovered some years ago by Lord Brian, the
eminent Harley Street Neurologist, who pointed out that the angle made by
the lids of an eye where they meet nearest the nose is less acute than the
angle at the inner half of the upper lid itself is narrower than the outer
half. The nose is out of alignment, as the middle of the upper lip is under
one nostril" >>
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"In 1782 [the Duke of] BRUNSWICK decided to solve his doubts by holding
a final Conference or Convent of the Order at Wilhelmsbad, near Hanau
in Hessen. True to its aristocratic origins, the last gathering of the
Strict Observance was a blue-blooded affair. But disillusion and decay
were patent. The successively unveiled mysteries of the Order had
yielded nothing but boring ritual; the alchemists had made no
discoveries, the Templar lands would never be returned. No one expected
to identify the long-concealed Unknown Superiors. The thirst for
mystical illumination remained, but hope of quenching it at the Templar
spring was over." - Peter Partner, The Murdered Magicians
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Constructing the Heptadecagon
http://www.seanet.com/~ksbrown/kmath487.htm
<<The ancient Greek geometers devoted considerable thought to the
question of which regular n-gons could be constructed by straightedge
and compass. They knew how to construct an equilateral triangle
(3-gon), a square (4-gon), and a regular pentagon (5-gon), and of
course they could double the number of sides of any polygon simply
by bisecting the angles, and they could construct the 15-gon by
combining a triangle and a pentagon. For over 2000 years
no other constructible n-gons were known.
Then, on 30 March 1796, the 19 year old Gauss discovered that it
was possible to construct the regular heptadecagon (17-gon). (This
discovery apparently convinced him to pursue a career in mathematics
rather than philology.) The result was announced in the "New
Discoveries" column of the journal "Intellegenzblatt der allgemeinen
Litteraturzeitung" on 1 June 1796 by A. W. Zimmermann, a professor
at the Collegium Carolinum and an early mentor of the young Gauss.
Gauss was clearly fond of this discovery, and there's a story that
he asked to have a heptadecagon carved on his tombstone, like the
sphere incribed in a cylinder on Archimedes' tombstone. The story
is probably apochryphal, because if Gauss had seriously wanted such
a monument located in the proximity of his actual remains, it would
have to be placed, not at his grave site, but above the jar in the
anatomical collection of the University of Gottingen where his brain
has been preserved (rather goulishly, in my opinion). On the other
hand, if proximity to the actual remains is not important, then the
heptadecagon on the monument to Gauss in his native town of BRUNSWICK>>
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DICTIONARY OF PHRASE & FABLE
<<"Here lies a she-sun, and a he-moon there."
(John Donne) Epithalamium on the marriage
of Lady ELIZAbeth, daughter of JAMES I,
with Frederick, elector palatine.
It was through this unfortunate princess,
(called 'Queen of Bohemia' & 'Queen of HEARTs')
that the family of BRUNSWICK succeeded to the British throne.
Some say that Lord CRAVEN (SEcreTly) married the 'fair widow.'>>
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CRAVEN, n. A recreant; a coward; a weak-hearted, spiritless fellow.
CRAVEN, v.t. To make recreant, weak, spiritless, or cowardly.[Obs.]
IMOGEN Against self-slaughter There is a prohibition
so divine Tha[T CRAVENS] my weak hand.
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[T CRAVENS]
CERVANT-S
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http://web.ukonline.co.uk/nigel.battysmith/Database/D0001/I1211.html
Elizabeth Stuart
Birth Date 19 AUG 1596
Death Date 13 FEB 1662
Marriage Date 14 FEB 1613
Frederick V Elector Palatine Of The Rhine
Death Date 29 NOV 1632
Descendants of Elizabeth Stuart and Frederick V Elector Palatine Of The
Rhine
1 Sophia Hanover = Ernest Augustus Of BRUNSWICK
1 George I King Of England = Sophia Dorothea Of BRUNSWICK & Zelle
1 George II King Of England = Wilhelmina Charlotte Caroline Margrave
2 Sophia Dorothea Hanover = Frederick William I Hohenzollern King of
Prussia
2 Sophia Charlotte = Frederick I Hohenzollern King of Prussia
1 Frederick William I Hohenzollern King of Prussia = Sophia Dorothea
Hanover
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http://www.hfac.uh.edu/gbrown/philosophers/leibniz/QueenAnne/QueenAnne.html
<<When Anne died on 12 August 1714, it was Sophie's son, Georg Ludwig,
elector of BRUNSWICK - Lüneburg (Hanover), who became the first
Hanoverian to ascend the British throne.>>
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http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/gatt/garden/catalog.asp?CN=21
<<In 1621, a gift of £250 from Henry, Lord Danvers (later Earl of Danby)
allowed the University of Oxford to take out the lease from Magdalen
College of a five-acre tract of meadowland, on a bend of the river
Cherwell beyond the East gate of the city, in order to set up a physic
garden there. Danvers' gift, together with the benefaction made by Sir
Henry Savile to found professorships of geometry and astronomy, promised
to transform the teaching of natural philosophy at Oxford. By 1632, the
buildings of what is now the University's botanical garden had been
erected by Nicholas Stone, a mason who had acted for INIGO JONES, and
work had begun to stock it with plants, following the model of earlier
physic gardens on the Continent. An attempt to persuade the elder John
Tradescant to accept the post of gardener failed in 1637, but, by 1641,
Jacob Bobart(c.1596-1680), a native of BRUNSWICK, had been appointed to
the post, with a lease on the garden of ninety-nine years, and the right
to sell fruit and vegetables from it. Bobart's tasks were 'to dresse
manure preserve and keepe the said Garden and from tyme to tyme sett
and plant the same with such herbes settes trees and plants as shall be
thought requesit and necessarie' (Vines and Druce, p.xvi), for which
Danby contracted to pay him £40 a year. Following Danby's death and the
sequestration of his lands during the Civil War, Bobart's salary went
unpaid for several years, and he lived from the sale of the Physic
Garden's produce while the University petitioned Parliament to have his
annuity restored. Bobart continued as gardener until his death, and was
succeeded in the post by his son, also called Jacob. His care for the
Physic Garden won the admiration of many visitors to Oxford, who were
impressed by the rare trees and plants which Bobart grew, by his
extraordinary topiary, and, increasingly, by the gardener's own bizarre
appearance (see http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/gatt/garden/catalog.asp?CN=22).
In Bobart's hands, the Physic Garden recreated Eden, in which all
the plants of the world had flourished.>>
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A hackney car, number three hundred and twentyfour, driver Barton James
of number one Harmony avenue, Donnybrook, on which sat a fare, a young
gentleman, stylishly dressed in an indigoblue serge suit made by George
Robert Mesias, tailor and cutter, of number five Eden quay, and wearing
a straw hat very dressy, bought of John Plasto of number one Great
BRUNSWICK street, hatter. Eh?
FLORRY What?
( A hackneycar number three hundred and twentyfour, with a
gallantbuttocked mare, driven by James Barton, Harmony Avenue,
Donnybrook, trots past. Blazes Boylan and Lenehan sprawl swaying
on the sideseats. The Ormond boots crouches behind on the axle.
Sadly over the crossblind Lydia Douce and Mina Kennedy gaze .)
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Does Joyce's _Ulysses_ end at 3:24 am June 17, 1904?
(324 = 3 x 3 x 3 dozen)
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http://www.go.ednet.ns.ca/~larry/planets/2bcocclt.htm
A Christmas Star Near Occultation
VENUS & Jupiter , June 17, 2 BC
<<One of the most impressive conjunctions with the two brightest
planets passing each other in the sky. (Full occultation only occured
in the far southern hemisphere.) In the middle east, the two planets
were in contact at sunset (in the western sky). VENUS passes Jupiter
at about 2' arc per hour. The eye has a resolution of 1' arc so
the two will appear as one only for a little more than 1 hour.>>
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/durer/magi.jpg
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From: Jorn Barger (jo...@mcs.com)
Subject: 'JAJ memory of only spree'
Newsgroups: alt.books.james-joyce
Date: 2001-01-15 07:46:03 PST
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<<Ulick O'Connor's Gogarty-bio [uoc80-81] reprints most of a letter from
Gogarty to an Oxford friend, written sometime after 21Jun 1904, when OG
had returned to Dublin from his second (and last) term at Oxford. It
gives the most detailed surviving picture of the reallife doings of
'the Bloomsday Joyce' (the full letter is in a letters-collection
I have no access to). Gogarty wrote:
This was the most happy day I ever wish to spend. First of all
I rose at 3:30 and saw the dawn;
This was the correct time for sunrise c16Jun--
Ulysses ends just before 3:30 on the 17th.>>
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FW 156.2: three thirty and a hundred times by the binomial dioram
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http://www.robotwisdom.com/jaj/ulysses/clocktime.html
<<Gifford says 3:33am sunrise (Dunsink time), but compare:
Rise Set
h m h m
June 16 0331 2030
June 17 0331 2030
June 18 0331 2031
June 19 0331 2031
June 20 0331 2031
June 21 0331 2032
June 22 0332 2032
[source] (adjusted for Dunsink by hand)>>
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3:33 LMT is Actual Sunrise time (no refraction)
3:31 LMT is Apparent Sunrise time (refraction estimate)
http://www.srrb.noaa.gov/highlights/sunrise/sunrise.html
<<Apparent sunrise - Due to atmospheric refraction, sunrise occurs
shortly before the sun crosses above the horizon. Light from the
sun is bent, or refracted, as it enters earth's atmosphere.
This effect causes the apparent sunrise to be earlier than
the actual sunrise. Similarly, apparent sunset occurs slightly
later than actual sunset. The sunrise and sunset times reported in
our calculator have been corrected for the approximate effects of
atmospheric refraction. However, it should be noted that due to changes
in air pressure, relative humidity, and other quantities, we cannot
predict the exact effects of atmospheric refraction on sunrise and
sunset time. Also note that this possible error increases with higher
(closer to the poles) latitudes.>>
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Bloomsday:
Actual Sunrise time: 3:33 LMT
Solar Declination: 23.33°
Height of (1923) Masonic Temple: 333 feet
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http://www.alexandria.lib.va.us/lhsc_online_exhibits/postcard/memorial.html
<<November 1, 1923: the laying of the corner stone of the George
Washington Masonic National Memorial at Alexandria, Va. This great
memorial to George Washington, the Mason, is situated on Shooters Hill.
The imposing Memorial, 333 feet high, overlooks the City of Washington
to the north and Mount Vernon to the South.>>
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FW page 444: And lest there be no misconception,
Miss Forstowelsy, over who to fasten the plight-
forlifer on (threehundred and thirty three to one on Rue the
Day!) when the nice little smellar squalls in his crydle what the
dirty old bigger'll be squealing through his coughin you better
keep in the gunbarrel straight around vokseburst as I recommence
you to (you gypseyeyed baggage, do you hear what I'm praying?)
FW 377.10: Three climbs three-quickenthrees in the garb of nine.
FW 151.21: when we were stripping in number three,
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Art Neuendorffer