Eotvos Wheel Code

So we have an Eotvos Wheel, but what do we do with it ?

Good question, Jen and Eric discuss this early on in the book on page 3 -

It is then mentioned again on page 270

This isn't a discussion of the Eotvos Wheel website, but I wouldn't be surprised if the site is linked in some way as it seems too much of a coincidence not to be.

In the first reference Jen says the Eotvos Wheel is the key to solving puzzles in Coriolis. Eric replies that she will have to play around to find the reference latitudes.

Interesting that only Latitude is mentioned, does this mean that it is only a fixed point on the Outer East West wheel that we need to find ?

Also each code line has up to 5 letters, but as you can see in the table below a few have one or two dots.

One final point the inner ring has 194 marks on it and the outer ring has 374, Not 360, so something in degrees may not be what we are searching for

So there are a couple of possibilities for code references to look for -

N or S value and E or W Value + Letter position (1 - 5) e.g. 45W 72N 3 Would give us the letter P

We could just look for the Latitude as Eric mentions, a N or S value e.g. 72N 3, however this gives us a problem, in that we don't know where to put the inner wheel in relation to the outer.

Alternatively we always use 0 on the inner wheel e.g. 45W 4 would give us G

The chances of N S E W being used clearly are probably quite slim so we may need to substitute other values for those.

Any thoughts or theories are more than welcome to try and resolve mystery of the wheel.

Below is a table with all the codes from the wheel and the position on the outer dial using the 0 position on the inner dial.

As you can see there is only one word that makes any sort of sense - SIOUX - and there are two positions on the wheel where the East and West values are the same - 59 and 111

It might help as a reference but I might as easily hinder if we concentrate too much on the values and not the code.

Dir	Value		L1	L2	L3	L4	L5
W	3		E	R	N	L	H
E	5		.	C	F	J	.
W	10		L	O	N	O	E
E	13		I	C	R	A	M
W	17		B	F	K	A	R
E	20		.	U	S	S	A
W	24		B	E	J	F	.
E	27		S	E	D	U	E
W	29		E	V	B	E	O
E	34		R	E	T	.	.
W	38		C	B	R	U	Z
E	42		V	F	I	L	T
W	45		K	.	O	G	.
E	51		X	G	L	D	Y
W	52		E	H	G	Y	D
E	59		P	U	A	L	K
W	59		R	N	B	F	H
W	66		W	Y	.	G	E
E	67		L	.	H	.	.
W	73		C	G	E	U	Z
E	75		O	R	.	O	S
W	80		M	D	J	Q	P
E	83		O	M	I	V	E
W	89		H	O	E	I	T
E	90		.	S	W	A	J
W	96		X	B	T	U	P
E	97		F	.	D	.	V
W	103		Q	L	R	.	.
E	104		P	P	O	L	A
W	111		I	Y	B	W	U
E	111		V	O	L	S	A
E	118		D	T	T	O	R
W	119		H	B	C	I	W
E	125		S	P	B	T	S
W	128		V	T	N	E	N
E	132		G	P	M	R	Q
W	136		V	B	X	R	O
E	139		V	J	P	M	A
W	144		.	Q	M	R	H
E	147		.	.	L	S	H
W	152		D	E	I	O	.
E	154		G	O	O	K	L
W	159		V	B	X	R	O
E	161		P	O	M	O	S
W	167		Z	T	R	E	J
E	168		A	U	G	L	O
W	175		S	I	O	U	X
E	176		L	G	.	.	Z
W	183		.	M	O	P	A
E	184		V	X	Q	B	Y