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260 DOCUMENTS CONCERNING SWEDENBORG.
memory, in which operations others are obliged to take
great pains and tedious labour.
" Having duly weighed the vast advantages arising
from mathematical and arithmetical knowledge in most
occasions of human life, he frequently used it as an
adage, that he who is ignorant of numbers is scarce
half a man.’
Whilst he was at Bender he composed a complete
volume of military exercises, highly esteemed by those
who are best skilled in the art of war.’
99
DISCOVERIES IN SCIENCE
MADE, OR ANTICIPATED, BY SWEDENBORG.
"It will perhaps give many of the readers of the Re
pository some pleasure, (says a learned writer in that
periodical,) to know, that among the facts which have
been discovered in the anatomy of the human body,
since the time of Swedenborg, but which do not seem
to have escaped the observation of this great man,
is that of the existence of a passage of communication
between the right and left, or two lateral ventricles of the
cerebrum.
"The first discovery and description of this passage
was claimed by the celebrated anatomist, Dr. Alexander
Monro, of Edinburgh, and has since been conceded to
him by succeeding anatomists ; hence it goes by the
denomination of the foramen of Monro. Dr. Monro
read a paper before the Philosophical Society of Edin
burgh on this subject, Dec. 13th, 1764 ; but in his work,
entitled, " Observations on the Structure and Junctions
of the Nervous System," he says that he demonstrated
this foramen to his pupils so early as the year 1753.
* See Intellectual Repository for 1824, p. 170.
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