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682 NOTES TO VOLUME I.
NOTE 81.
ALBRECHT SCHÖNSTRÖM.
Albrecht Schönström , who is mentioned in Document 86, was
the second son of Peter Schönström , brother of Bishop Swedberg,
and hence was Swedenborg’s cousin. See Document 9, p. 85.
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NOTE 82.
BAGLIVI.
Of Baglivi, who is mentioned by Swedenborg in Document 88,
we find in Hæser’s “ History of Medicine, " p. 605, the following
account: " In a shipwreck, in the neighbourhood of Ragusa, of the
whole crew only two tender boys were rescued ; and they were after
wards entrusted to the care of the Jesuits. The orphans were
subsequently taken charge of by two brothers, Baglivi, at Lecce,
one of whom was a priest and the other a physician. The elder of
the two boys took holy orders, but the younger, Giorgio, followed
the profession of his adopted father, and studied first at Salerno,
Naples, and Bologna, and finally at Rome under Malpighi. There
he very soon became professor of theoretical medicine in the insti
tution called " Sapienza," and afterwards professor of anatomy and
surgery. He soon distinguished himself there by his great talent
for teaching, as well as by his general scientific culture and estimable
character. He died at the early age of thirty- four years. His most
important works are: 1. De praxi medica ad pristinam observandi
rationem revocanda libri II, Rome, 1696. 2. Specimen quatuor
librorum de fibra motrice et morbosa, Rome, 1701. 3. Opera omnia
medico practica et anatomica, Lugd. Bat. 1704. Haller does not
judge very favourably of Baglivi, and even expresses the suspicion,
that he sought to pass off some discoveries of Malpighi as his own .
NOTE 83.
DESCARTES.
René Descartes, (Document 88,) but frequently called Renatus Car
tesius, the well-known reformer of philosophy, was born in 1596, and
died in 1650. In 1649 he was persuaded to go to Sweden, where
Queen Christina desired his learned intercourse and instruction; but
he died there a few months after his arrival. His philosophy pre
vailed much in Sweden during Swedenborg’s time (see Document 78).
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