Full resolution (JPEG) - On this page / på denna sida - Sidor ...
<< prev. page << föreg. sida << >> nästa sida >> next page >>
Below is the raw OCR text
from the above scanned image.
Do you see an error? Proofread the page now!
Här nedan syns maskintolkade texten från faksimilbilden ovan.
Ser du något fel? Korrekturläs sidan nu!
This page has never been proofread. / Denna sida har aldrig korrekturlästs.
212 (Doc. 40.
SWEDENBORG’S CORRESPONDENCE.
very rare ; they will be most useful to the public, especially to
those who intend to comment upon Polhammar’s14 inventions,
for perhaps parallel cases may occur in it. The book is too
dear for me. Should any ofPolhammar’s inventions be published,
I wish you would communicate them to me, for by means of
them I may obtain an introduction to some mathematicians
whose acquaintance I desire; at such a time I sincerly wish I
could be at home.
If you would be kind enough to order a quadrant for me
of Polhammar’s brother, I would be very much obliged to you;
four or five feet long, of brass ; if it be deemed advisable that
he should make the division, I wish he would do it after the
manner in which his brother computed one very accurately
for Prof. Spole ; which showed the fifth of every second. I
think my father will not refuse to pay for it, if he has any.
thing to spare.
P. S. Grabe’s Septuagint was recently published ; but I have
only seen it in octavo, together with a small pamphlet in
quarto upon the Alexandrian codex. He was here for some
time ; but he had to change his lodgings every week, he was
so over-run by visitors. Ephraim Syrius is very well published
in folio, at Oxford. They have issued a book of all their
poets in two volumes ; likewise a universal index. I have much
to tell about events among the learned, but I have neither
time ‘nor paper. In my next I will give you an account
of what I have read of the doings of the learned. I asked
Count Gyllenborg about your books; he said he received your
letter, but not the books ; they are detained in the custom
house, until the duty be paid ; it is a great chance if I hear
anything about them . The Vitis aquilonia is a catholic and
superstitious book, which by an act of Parliament in the
third year of William and Mary’s reign was forbidden to be
introduced into the country. If it was another book, I should
try to get it for you, for then it would be free.
<< prev. page << föreg. sida << >> nästa sida >> next page >>
