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DOCUMENT 79.
SWEDENBORG TO BENZELIUS.*
Most honoured and dear brother,
I send something new in physics by brother
Rudbeck ;49 but do not know whether it will arrive before this
letter. It treats of the smallest round particles, or of air
and wind. I believe that it will be acceptable abroad. I
have also several other matters, and among them a more
thorough explanation of the method of finding the longitude of
places; in the calculation of which I have gradually acquired
greater facility.
I received to -day a letter from the Councillor of Commerce
[Polhem ) at Wenersborg, in which he presses and urges me
to journey thither. He has now received the order that the
locks are to be built, and that the navigation between the
Baltic and North Sea is to be through the lakes of Wener
and Wetter to Norköping, at His Majesty’s private expense.
There is therefore considerable work ahead, but I shall
have to stay here for two weeks yet. Then, with your leave,
I will come as fast as possible to Upsal, in order to see
through the press what I have in hand. The Councillor of
Commerce writes, that the King wonders and expresses dis
satisfaction at my not going on with the Dedalus as before.
I should like very much to take something down with me
which will please the King. Let nothing interfere with my
new method of calculation; it may be very useful for those
who desire to use it; I take the whole responsibility upon
myself.
* Benzelius’ Collection, Vol. XL, No. 135. No. VIII, in the Appen
dix to Atterbom’s “Siare och Skalder," p. 111. Letter 25, in Mr. White’s
“New Churchman," Vol. 2, p. 138.
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