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250 SWEDENBORG’S CORRESPONDENCE . [Doc. 55.
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out. I will therefore probably adhere to my first resolution,
and try to obtain what I submitted to you some time ago, viz :
1. Inasmuch as a Mathematical and Scientific Faculty is
as necessary and useful as a Philosophical Faculty, and as
more benefit would accrue to our country from the former,
than even from the latter, partly by the establishment of
manufactures, and partly from its application to mining,
navigation, &c., therefore a seventh part of the appropriation
made for the university might well be taken for the former;
whereby the sum of 9000 dalers in copper might be obtained .
2. This sum might then be divided and applied, as follows:
Professor of mechanics 600
Secretary 300
4 fellows, at 200 dalers each . 800
4 auscultants, at 100 dalers each . 400
Models, experiments, and observations 500
Instruments, annually 400
Making a total of 3000 dalers in silver.
3. The four fellowships at 200 dalers in silver might be very
well accepted by some of the professors, e. g., by Professors
Valerius,"1 Elfvius,54 Roberg,"º and Bromell :72 so that, with their
professorships, they would get more than they do now. The
office of secretary would be filled best by yourself. I should
think that the professors would look upon this deduction of
one seventh from their income with more favour than upon
a deduction of one half, as is the case with all the other
servants of the King; especially as they would only be called
upon to give up something of their own for the purpose of
advancing the cause of education in general.
4. Although all this is proposed more in jest than in earnest,
still if it should gain somebody’s consent, it could be followed
by the recommendation of those that are concerned,-but
more of this anon.
If it were possible, I should like very much to have by
some messenger, the camera obscura which is enclosed in
a blue cylinder as a case ; it lies in the store-room on the
locker, near the closet. I intend by means of it to prepare
" Reflections on the Art of Perspective," by taking with it
many views and prospects. If therefore you could send it to
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