Gwenivere13
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Hey, does anyone know where I can find a blueprint for a cryptex? I'm kind of into woodworking and would like to build one - but I can't seem to find anything about it - let alone an actual design!
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Sephia
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hmm...try Da Vinci's notebooks.....have any of them been translated, etc?
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AAnnAArchy
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Gwenivere13 said:
Hey, does anyone know where I can find a blueprint for a cryptex? I'm kind of into woodworking and would like to build one - but I can't seem to find anything about it - let alone an actual design!
I've checked all of the search engines and I can't find any blueprints to make one. Sorry.  I'll check with a couple of my omniscient friends, but I'm afraid this one might require a trip to a library or help from whomever helped Dan Brown.
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Sephia
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I am not sure if there even are blueprints for it...Leonardo was notorious for not finishing things...
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AAnnAArchy
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Sephia said:
I am not sure if there even are blueprints for it...Leonardo was notorious for not finishing things...
Hey, me too! Someday maybe I'll be thought of as one of the "greats", although it'll only be referring to my big ideas and lack of follow-through. 
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EdG
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Codex at DanBrown.com
I'm sorry if this is not what you are looking for, but I found it at the Dan Brown web site, it's refered to as a Codex there. The hardwriting is backwards, so I'd print it out and hold it up to a mirror or something.
<edited to fix the side scroll - AAnn>
Edited by AAnnAArchy (03/06/04 09:44 AM)
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JonPayne
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According to some of the books listed as references by Brown, this device is a perpetual motion machine, not the cryptex. I feel it is incorrectly labeled on his website. I have also scoured the internet, and purchased several Da Vinci books looking for a drawing, but to no avail. Does anyone know how to contact Mr. Brown or his publisher? Perhaps the direct approach is called for. . .
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Honesty
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by JonPayne
According to some of the books listed as references by Brown, this device is a perpetual motion machine, not the cryptex.
The most famous instance in history of a perpetual motion machine is the Orffyreus Wheel; there is no blueprint for this machine as its creator destroyed it thus taking its secret to the grave.
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JonPayne
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This thread was about the cryptex, do you have any info about it? I have searched 5 books on Leonardo so far and cannot find any reference to it. Perhaps it is a figment of Mr. Browns imagination?
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Honesty
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Perhaps it is a figment of Mr. Browns imagination?
Da Vinci's sketches and notes do allude to a cog-wheeled device that could be interpreted as a calculator.
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