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128 TRAVELS
publifhed, for the ufe of-his pupils, elements of aftronomy and
mechanics.
Mr. Nordwall, one of the beft mechanics in Sweden. It was
under the direction of Nordwall that the famous canal of Trol-
hatta was completed. He is now engaged in the continuation of
a work, called in Swedith Bergverks Lexicon, i. €. 3 diGionary on
mines and mineralogy : it was begun by Mr. Renman, who wrote
a hiftory of Sweden, whi ch is well known | in the literature of
that country. P a | |
Mr. Swamberg, fecretary to the academy, a native of Torned.
He 1s a profound mathematician and aftronomer ; a man of ex-
tenfive general knowledge, and a true philofopher. He has been
lately {ent into ) Lapland to verify the obfervations of Maupertuis, .
‘and is at this moment employed, together with other mathema-
ticians, in repeating the obfervations made by the French aca- ,
demicians, which were fufpected of inaccuracy.
To the fame clafs likewife belong Mr. Polheimer, a good me-
chanic ; Mr. Tegman, and Mae Bouck.
CLASS VI.
: Medicine.
Mr. af Acrel, efteemed the bet furgeon in Sweden. He is a
man of great merit ; but it is to be regretted that he has remained
wholly ignorant of the difcoveries that have been made in phyfio-
logy during the laft ten years, in other parts of Europe. The.
confequence of this is, that he is devoted to his own fy{tem, and
will
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