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DOCUMENT 93.
SWEDENBORG TO BENZELIUS. *
Most honoured and dear brother,
I received your letter yesterday. It would be
my greatest delight if I could continue my Anatomy from here.
The first draught was left at Starbo,68 and without it it
would make my head ache, to endeavour to hunt up the various
threads which are already deeply obducta alius generis cogi
tationibus (i. e. covered up by thoughts of a different kind).
Still it shall be done, as soon as opportunity offers.
As you intend to be here on Ascension Day, I may be
back at Starbo about the 11th or 12th of June, so as to take
there the observation de sole inocciduo aut refracto (i. e. of
the non-setting or refracted sun), about which I wrote to you.
I will suspend my faith in it, until I have witnessed it with
my own eyes.
I am at present engaged in examining all the chemistry
contained in the treasury of the Sudeman Library, which
belongs now to Hesselius,76 for I have proposed to myself to
examine thoroughly everything that concerns fire and metals,
a primis incunabilis usque ad maturitatem ( from the first
attempts and experiments to the maturer results), according
to the plan of the memorandum which has already been com
municated to you. I take the chemical experiments of Boyle,
Reucher,t Hjärne,58 Simons (?), etc., and trace out nature in
its least things, instituting comparisons with geometry and
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* “ Benzelius’ Collection," Vol. XL , No. 147.
+ This name probably stands for Kircher, a celebrated Jesuit, who lived
in the 17th century, and who was one of the very first who distinguished
between chemistry and alchemy, and is regarded as the founder of the
science of chemistry.
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