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THE SOURCES OF
SWEDENBORG’S EARLY PHILOSOPHY OF NATURE
BY ALFRED H. ST RO Ii.
The Cartesian Controversy which raged at the University of Upsala
from 1663 to 1689 forms the proper historical background for
Sweden-borg’s early investigations in the field of the natural Sciences. It will
therefore be best in the present discussion of the sources of Swedenborg’s
early philosophy of nature, in the course of which the relation of his
investigations to those of Descartes, Newton and Polhem will be
con-sidered, first briefly to describe the course of the Cartesian Controversy
at Upsala and its influence upon the founders of that scientific movement
at the University which in 1710 was organized as the Collegium
Curio-sorum and subsequently developed into the Royal Society of Sciences of
Upsala.
The Cartesian Controversy at Upsala University, 1663—1689, and its
influence upon the founders of the Royal Society of Sciences
of Upsala, first organized in 1710.1
The inner history of Sweden after the Thirty Years’ War- exhibits
a series of changes affecting in a fundamental manner the politics, social
1 See an address on »The Cartesian Controversy at Upsala, 1663—1689, and its
connection with Swedenborg’s nebular hypothesis», in Verhandlungen des III.
Internationalen Kongresses filr Philosophie, Heidelberg, 1908*, pp 248—255. The same volume also
eontains, pp. 241—246, a contribntion entitled »Relics of Descartes’ visit to Sweden,
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