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248 SWEDENBORG’S CORRESPONDENCE. [Doc. 54.
from the materials collected in Stiernsund, during my short
stay there.
5. N.B. I send a drawing for the interest-triangle, and
also one for a little instrument used in Pålhammar’s experiments;
I do not know how this may be cut in wood. It would be a
piece of good fortune, and a great advantage, if some one could
be found at Upsal to do this. It is easy enough, and only re
quires one who has a knowledge of the first rudiments of the
art of engraving. If it were necessary to have it done in
copper, I could neither get it to, nor from , Aveln nor Heden
gren. If, therefore, it be feasible to have it cut in wood at
Upsal, try, I pray you, to have it done ; I shall pay for it
most willingly. Perhaps Prof. Valerius i or Dr. Roberg?º will
give the instructions.
6. How good it would be to get a copper-plate press at
Upsal!
7. For the larger copper -plates and their printing I have
made the necessary arrangements in Stockholm , through brother
Gustaf.65
8. I wish from my heart that it [the magazine] could be
printed — the sooner the better, so that I might take a few copies
to Ystad,* to direct, while I am there, attention to this, as well
as to the first, number.
9. If I can remain at Brunsbot long enough to get your
letter, I will beg from you a proposition for providing means
for a Professor of Mechanics, to be paid like the other pro
fessors; perhaps it may be done by diminishing the salaries of
the others. I see no other plan by which this measure can
be advocated in the proper place.
10. I have also another little work to which Pålhammar
intends to contribute. It is called Ornament for Youth, Profit
for Manhood, and Delight for Old Age, in which arithmetic,
geometry, and algebra are treated of, beginning with the
easiest problems, and gradually ascending to the more difficult.
There are two sheets of it done, which I will send to Upsal
at an early opportunity.
* The royal court of Charles XII was at Ystad, at that time. Ystad
is a Swedish sea -port in Schonen.
+ The episcopal residence of his father near Skara.
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