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DOCUMENT 76.
SWEDENBORG TO BENZELIUS.*
Most honoured and dear brother,
As I had some leisure hours here at Brunsbo,
I have prepared an Art of the Rules ( Regel-konst)† or Algebra
in Swedish ; and although I had no book or other help
at hand, I have tried to make it as easy and concise as
possible ; it will probably not exceed six sheets in print. I
was induced to write it chiefly because so many in Lund and
Stockholm have begun to study algebra, and because I have
been requested by others to prepare it; I hope that it will
be of service to the public. I should like very much that it
.
might, with your usual care, be sent to press, in octavo like
the last work which I sent over to you, so as to form a
volume. I have still enough left for the Dædalus. It would
be well to have it done in a handsome style, even in a more
handsome one than the “ Second Fundamental Principle "
(Andra Grundwahlen ).I As to the expenses, they shall be
met, as required. Is there any one at Upsal, skilled in
algebra, who could read the proof-sheets ? for he who under
takes it must have some knowledge of the subject; whenever
there is an opportunity he shall be repaid. Can it be true
that Bishop Gezelius has received orders to present clergymen
* Benzelius’ Collection, Vol. XL, No 132. Letter 22 in Mr. White’s
“New Churchman ,” Vol. 2, p. 125.
+ Regelkonsten författadt i tjo Bökker, & c. Algebra in ten sections,
by Emanuel Swedberg, Upsal, 1718, 8vo, 135 pages. A comprehensive
review of this work appeared in the “Acta Literaria Sueciæ " Vol. I, pp. 126
to 134, and also in the “Neuere Zeitungen von Gelehrten Sachen auf das
Jahr 1722," Leipzig, Vol. I, p. 378.
| See Note to Document 72.
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