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DOCUMENT 43.
SWEDENBORG TO ERICUS BENZELIUS.*
Received January, 1712. [E. B.]
Most learned Librarian,
Two weeks ago a letter was dispatched by
a ship which started for Gottenburg, but which was un
fortunately obliged to put back here again a few days
ago, in company with several others. Meanwhile your much
wished for answer to my last letter, together with a draft for
250 Rixdalers in copper, on account of the Library, has arrived .
Part of this money has already been laid out for the books
which you ordered in your last letter, all of which I have suc
ceeded in finding and purchasing, with the exception of the
Philosophical Transactions, of which however, after a great deal
of enquiry, I have at last found a copy. All these shall be
sent by the next opportunity either to Gottenburg or Stock
holm , together with a very handsome microscope. With respect
to the glasses for the telescopes, I shall wait until I hear from
you again ; for the manufacturers generally say that they never
make more than two glasses for a twenty -four feet telescope,
but for one that is only six or seven feet long they make four,
and they add, that those which consist of four glasses can be
used only in the day-time, but the others also at night. Flam
steed’s sixteen feet telescope had only two glasses. The
glasses which Hevelius made by hand are all done, and they
all stood the test. The bill will follow when they are sent
off, and also a catalogue of everything belonging to the air
pump, of which I have the author’s own description in a
pamphlet in quarto; this I will also send, and it may then either
* Benzelius’ Collection, Vol. IV , No. 66.
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