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Doc. 205.] 29
SWEDENBORG’S TRAVELS IN 1733.
the tin which comes from the East Indies is used ; the Saxon
tin is said to be unfit for this purpose, because it breaks into
pieces under the hammer, and becomes wrinkled, so that it is
impossible to obtain from it a continuous leaf or foil. 2. After
the tin has been poured out into thin sheets, and cut into
square pieces, the workman pounds it continuously, until at last
he is able to pass one hundred at the same time under his
hammer; he strikes the tin leaves but lightly with his hammer.
At last a leaf, which at first measured only six inches square,
is beaten and attenuated so much, that it measures from one
and a half to two ells square. 3. The working out of one
hundred of such leaves, is said to occupy from five to six weeks.
July 8. I perused the first part of a work entitled :
Bibliothèque Italique; ou Histoire Littéraire de l’Italie, which
treats of the following: In the first volume the writers on
Italian history are reviewed. The editors are said to be a
society consisting of sixteen persons. The laws of the Lango
bards in Italy are first discussed, from which it is thought
the manners of peoples may be known. These laws were
passed in 638, and they were long in vogue in Italy ; they con
tinued until the year 1137, when Lothair II was emperor. At
that time three codes of laws were in existence : the Roman,
the Salian, and the Langobardian. It is questionable, how
ever, whether they are as yet so far abrogated, that no judg
ment may be passed in accordance with them. The Lango
bardian laws, or the laws of Lombardy, have been edited
several times, and they are similar in tenor to the laws of
the northern nations, e. g. they permit duels with staves, &c.
When a wife is killed without a just cause, a fine is inflicted ;
a natural son also inherits a share, &c. It is worth investigat
ing, whether the ancient Swedish laws coincide with these, or
not; and what difference there was between them; from which
it may be deduced whether the Goths in conjunction with the
Germans subjugated Italy.
July 10. At the house of Secretary Rüger I saw Wolf’s18
Cosmologia generalis ; he endeavours to establish the nature
of the elements from merely metaphysical principles ; his theory
is based on sound Foundations.
Afterwards I read La Bibliothèque Italique for the year
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