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10 DOCUMENTS CONCERNING SWEDENBORG.
To this work are appended
4. Modus Construendi Receptacula Navalia.
5. Nova Constructio Aggeris Aquatici.
6. Modus Mechanice Explorandi Virtutes Navigiorum.
These works were all printed at Amsterdam in 1721 .
7. Miscellanea Observata circa Res Naturales ; præ
sertim Mineralia, Ignem, et Montium Strata.
Three parts of which were printed at Leipsic, and
the fourth at Hamburg, in 1722.*
If we except Linnæus, who ever knew how to profit
so well by a journey of so short duration ? For in 1722,
after an absence of a year and a half, he rejoiced his
country by his return.
In the years succeeding he divided his time and his
occupations between the business of the Royal Board of
Mines and his studies, till 1733, when he finished his
great work entitled Opera Philosophica et Mineralia.†
It was published in 1734 at Dresden and Leipsic; and
while it was printing he visited the mines of Austria and
Hungary, a journey which lasted a year. This work
is in three volumes, in folio. The title of the first volume
is, Principia Rerum Naturalium ; sive Novorum Ten
taminum Phænomena Mundi Elementaris Philosophice
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*We subjoin a translation of the titles of the above works :
1. A Prodromus [or Sketch and Specimen] of a work on the
Principles of Natural Things, or New Attempts at explaining
the Phenomena of Chemistry and Physics on Geometrical
Principles.
2. New Observations and Discoveries respecting Iron and Fire,
especially respecting the Elementary Nature of Fire. With
a new mode ofconstructing Chimneys.
3. A new Method of finding the Longitude of Places either on
Land or at Sea, by Lunar Observations.
4. A Mode for constructing Dry Docks for Shipping, in Harbours
where there are no Tides.
5. A new Mode of constructing Dykes to exclude Inundations ofthe
Sea or of Rivers.
6. A Mode of ascertaining, by Mechanical means, the qualities of
Vessels of different Constructions.
7. Miscellaneous Observations on Natural Things, particularly on
Minerals, Fire, and the Strata ofMountains.
+ Philosophical and Mineral Works.
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