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234 [Doc. 47.
SWEDENBORG’S CORRESPONDENCE.
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Professor Elfvius,54 I shall continue to do so for some time.
Herewith follows another machine of the same kind, an
air -pump, which has the same effect as the preceding one,
but differs considerably in its construction, being easier to
make ; and perhaps quicker to work with. Further it is my
intention, of which I hope you will approve, to send over some
of my machines of this kind for the examination of the Upsal
people ; and when this is done, to do the same with those
which are in Pålhammar’s14 possession, and thus to prepare
them for publication, when an opportunity offers. This may
perhaps be a little foundation for a Society in Physics and
Mechanics amongst us, like those in other places. When their
utility is known in mining operations, and in the manufactures
which may be established in Sweden, we may hope that in
time they will meet with encouragement from some college or
other; especially, if the High Chancellor Palmquistoi, who is
a great mathematician, and with whom I have already conferred
on this subject, should return home from the Hague. You
also, perhaps, will do your share in this matter, as you are
almost the only one in the university inclined to encourage
these and similar studies. Such an undertaking, however,
should be commenced only on a small scale, and in course of
years may be enlarged. You will please take care of these
machines, as I might lose the copies.
I am relieving these mathematical studies with poetry;
I have published a few things, and have now in the press
some fables like those of Ovid, under which the deeds and
other affairs of certain kings and great men are concealed.*
As to the doings of the learned, there is nothing of much
interest to be found in Greifswalde, which - you will excuse
me for saying — is quite a paltry university. Papke is the
professor of mathematics, fit for anything rather than for this
* The work in question was published by Swedenborg under this title:
Camena Borea cum Heroum et Heroidum factis ludens: sive Fabello
Ovidianis similes cum variis nominibus scriptæ ab Emanuel Swedberg
(The Northern Muse sporting with the deeds of heroes and heroines: or
Fables similar to those of Ovid under various names, by Emanuel Swed
berg). Gryphiswaldiæ (Greifswalde), 1715. A second edition of this work
was published by Dr. Im . Tafel at Tübingen, in 1845 .
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