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32 SWEDENBORG’S TRAVELS AND DIARIES. [ Doc. 205.
1719, it is said, that various colours appeared in the sky, a
certain flamy something, a ball from which smoke proceeded, &c.:
from all of which circumstances it is surmised that it was
some kind of sulphur. Another declares, that the chemists
are able to exhibit similar phenomena, as dragons, fire-balls,
which are made by mixing sulphur, salt-petre, camphor, and
petroleum, and by saturating the mixture with spirits of wine ,
and afterwards by evaporation.
July 13. Mention is made in the Bibliotheca Italica* of
anatomists ; as, for instance, of M. Ruysch, of Holland, and of
M. des Nouës, who constructs the bodily organs of wax.
M. Bianchi has made an arrangement in anatomy, that every
thing may be laid open and seen without any ill scent; and,
indeed, so naturally, that the whole body of a woman being
dissected beforehand is opened in a moment, the skin is drawn
off. all the arteries and nerves are exposed, and the interior
organs are examined in their natural position, the womb with
the fœtus, and many other things ; all of which can at once
be put together again. He has made most exact delineations
of the organ of hearing and of sight, where also the mechanism
of sight and the influx of the ether are demonstrated. In like
manner he has made most exquisite carvings of the veins, the
brain, and the nerves.
From the paper of Francisco Travagini on the earthquakes
of Italy [ the following particulars are extracted]. The times
that precede and follow the equinoxes are the seasons at which
earthquakes occur ; the vibration is made from the east to the
west, and vice versa, as may be noticed by those who are
standing; it appears also from the waves and the canals, from
the houses and other buildings, and the swinging lamps and
bells therein. It was noticed that this reciprocal motion is
always joined with a lateral vibration, but not near the place
where the earthquake occurs ; this motion or this vibration
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diminishes according to distance ; the vibration may be felt in
places which are far distant.
M. Rizzetti has published "A system of colours, with his ob
jections to Newton," in Latin, at Treviso, 8vo.
* Vol. III, p. 63.
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