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262 A History of Sweden
Sweden had never before witnessed such a develop-
ment.
Cultural Development. Of the highest permanent
value, however, were the achievements of the period in
Literature and Science. The large number of eminent
men, thinkers and writers, who now appeared made
this period pre-eminently an age of culture. Of these
only a few can here be mentioned.
For material culture there labored such men as
Christopher Polhem and Jonas Alstromer, already re-
ferred to. In Literature and History there was Olov
von Dalin; in Botany, the world-famous Carl von
Linne, or Linnaeus; in Mathematics and Astronomy,
Anders Celsius; in Chemistry, Torbern Bergman and
Karl Wilhelm Scheele; in Mathematics and Astronomy,
Physics and Mechanics, Chemistry, Geology, and Phi-
losophy, the gentle and kindly Emanuel Swedenborg.
Olof von Dalin. In 1732 appeared the first Swedish
periodical that was read with general interest. It was
"The Swedish Argus" (Then Swanska Argus), whose
editor had determined to let his fellow countrymen see
their faults and follies face to face. Never, perhaps,
has a paper been received with more enthusiasm than
this little sheet issued weekly. A contemporary relates
a generation later : "Most of us remember even today
with what longing we waited for the day on which this
little paper usually made its appearance, and how
eagerly we devoured its contents even as a hungry man
at table." And when after two years the paper was dis-
continued the whole country "sorrowed as over the
death of some national benefactor."
How curious people were to know who the witty
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