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722 NOTES TO VOLUME I.
NOTE 142.
PROFESSOR SCHENMARK .
Professor Nils Schenmark of Lund, Swedenborg’s correspondent
in 1766, was born in 1720 in Östra Ny in the diocese of Linköping.
In 1738, he became a student in Lund, where his uncle Dr. J. Wåhlin
was dean and professor of theology. He took his degree of master
of philosophy in 1745 ; and in 1749, the observatory at Lund was
placed under his charge. In 1751 , he was sent to Hernösand in
the far north, to take observations there in connection with those
made by the celebrated French astronomer De la Caille at the
Cape of Good Hope, with the view of determining more precisely
the parallaxes of the moon and of the planets Venus and Mars. He
remained for a whole year at Hernösand, and acquitted himself so
well in the work entrusted to him, that he was chosen a member
of the Academy of Sciences in 1755. From 1758, to 1761 he
surveyed the Swedish coast from the Sound to Norway, in 1763 he
was appointed professor of mathematics at Lund. After a long illness
he died in 1788, universally respected.
NOTE 143.
JOHAN HELMIK ROMAN.
Johan Helmik Roman, "the great musician," with whom , according
to Document 6, S 23, Swedenborg, "spoke on the day he was buried,"
was the son of Johan Roman, musical conductor to Charles XII,
and was born in 1694. He is one of the few Swedish musicians of
note. In his sixteeth year he became a member of the royal orchestra,
and was sent by Queen Ulrica Eleonora to England, to study thorough
bass under Handel. During his stay in London he was known as
the Swedish virtuoso, and in 1720 was invited by the Duke of New
castle to take up his abode in his palace. In 1721, he returned to
Stockholm , and in 1727 became leader of the royal orchestra. In
1735, he again went abroad, and on his return was chosen a member
of the Royal Academy of Sciences. The last years of his life he
spent on his estate near Calmar, where he died December 20, 1758.
NOTE 144 ,
ANDERS CELSIUS.
Anders Celsius, who questioned the correctness of Swedenborg’s
Principia (see Document 200, p. 566 ), was the son of Professor Nils
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