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4 SWEDENBORG’S TRAVELS AND DIARIES. [Doc. 204.
that no one who ventured to do this in future would escapo
his doom.
In London and Oxford I spent upwards of a year.
Thence I proceeded to Holland, and visited its principal
towns. I spent a considerable time at Utrecht during the session
of the Congress, * at which ambassadors from all parts of
Europe were assembled.
From Holland I went to France, going by way of Brussels
and Valenciennes to Paris. There and at Versailles I stayed
nearly a year. From Paris I posted to Hamburg, passing
through Ryssel or Lille. Thence I went to Pomerania and
Greifswalde, where I remained a considerable time, and during
my stay there, Charles XII came from Bender to Stralsund.
When the siege was about to commence I succeeded, under
the Divine Providence, in obtaining a passage home in a yacht,
in company with Madame Feiff, 106 after having been abroad
for more than four years.
1721. In the spring I again went abroad, going to Holland
by Copenhagen and Hamburg. There I published my Pro
dromus principiorum rerum naturalium,† and several other
short treatises in octavo.
* By the Congress of Utrecht the Spanish war of succession was closed.
† Prodromus Principiorum Rerum Naturalium sive Novorum Tenta
minum Chymiam et Physicam Experimentalem geometrice explicandi.
Amstelodami, 1721. This work was translated into English by C. E. Strutt,
and published in London in 1847 under the following title : "Some Specimens
of a work on the Principles of Chemistry."
are:
The other little works published by Em. Swedenborg at the same time
Methodus Nova inveniendi Longitudines locorum terrâ marique ope
Luna (A New Method for finding the Longitudes of places on land and at
sea by Lunar Observations) ; Nova Observata et Inventa circa Ferrum et
Ignem, et præcipue circa Naturam Ignis Elementarem, una cum Camini
inventione (New Observations and Discoveries respecting Iron and Fire,
and particularly respecting the elemental nature of Fire : together with a
new construction of stoves) ; Artificia nova mechanica Receptacula Navalia
et Aggeres Aquaticos construendi (A new mechanical plan for constructing
Docks and Dykes) ; and Modus mechanice explorandi virtutes et qualitates
diversi generis et constructionis Navigiorum (A mode for discovering the
powers of Vessels by the application of mechanical principles). All these
little treatises were likewise translated by Mr. Strutt, and published in the
same volume with the "Principles of Chemistry."
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