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Doc. 85.] 307
SWEDENBORG TO BENZELIUS,
banknotes are in hand with which to build, yet it is very
difficult to go to work with these, so long as people doubt
the certainty of getting these notes changed into good silver
coin . Meanwhile I find it necessary to go to Stjernsund
as soon as the famished relay -horses are able to go. So God
will, I shall remain there until spring, and then I shall return
to the work at the locks, as soon as the means for continuing
the work are found, without any compulsion, and without bank
notes, about which we are now deliberating.
With many kind regards to you and your family, and to
my other friends and acquaintances at Upsal, of which there
are now not many, I remain
Your most obedient servant,
CHRISTOPH POLHEM.
Carlsgraf, April 18, 1719.
To the Reverend and most Learned Librarian,
ERIC BENZELIUS, Upsal.
DOCUMENT 85.
SWEDENBORG TO BENZELIUS.*
Most honoured and dear Brother,
A few days ago I arrived here in Stockholm ,
when I was at once informed by various persons that a new
discovery had been made in France affecting the inhabi
tants of this earth, viz. that our earth had approached
25,000 miles nearer the sun , and that they had written on
this subject to the learned Academies. I should like very
much, for better information, to obtain all the particulars
respecting it, viz. whether observations have been made of the
sun’s diameter, and its visible increase, or of the parallaxes
of the planets and their supposed displacement, which could
not fail to be noticed, in case we approached nearer to our
* Benzelius’ Collection, Vol. XL , No. 140.
20 *
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