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322 [Doc. 91.
SWEDENBORG’S CORRESPONDENCE.
My own thoughts about this, with reference to the letter
and the models for a similar purpose which were published a
few years ago, I will show, with directions how they are to
be applied in Sweden, at greater length some other time.
EMAN. SWEDENBORG.
February 29, 1720.
DOCUMENT 91..
SWEDENBORG TO BENZELIUS. *
Most honoured and dear brother,
By the last post I sent you a double quantity,t
which accounts for the deficient supply by the present post,
and must be held sufficient also until I learn whether what
has been sent meets with praise or blame ; otherwise the small
matters I have collected are entirely at your command . Will
you please express my thanks to Magister Valerius 71 for the
trouble he has taken with the translation. I am glad you
will get my treatise on the Longitude ť reviewed ; I only
wish it may be done carefully, so that it may meet with favour
abroad, especially as it may be of such great use to the
public generally, for I still feel assured that, of all the
methods that have been discovered, it is the easiest. In
the translation, and also in the review , chapters 21, 22, 23,
ought to come immediately after chapter 12, so as to present
the following order, 12, 21, 22, 23, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19,
20, 24, to preserve the continuity of the subject.
Have not the time and opportunity arrived for proposing
to the Diet the plan which was projected during the time
of the late King Charles XII, for the establishment of a
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* “ Benzelius’ Collection ," Vol. XL, No. 145.
+ A double quantity of the anatomical treatise.
$ This review is contained in the " Acta Literaria Suecice," for 1720,
pages 27 to 33.
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