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Doc. 205.] 33
SWEDENBORG’S TRAVELS IN 1733.
M. Bourguet: Lettres philosophiques sur la formation des
sels et des cristaux, et sur la génération et le mécanisme des
plantes et des animaux, à l’occasion de la pierre Belemnite et
de la pierre lenticulaire, avec un mémoire sur la théorie de la
terre (Philosophical letters on the formation of salts and
crystals, and on the generation and the mechanism of plants
and animals, on the occasion of the belemnite stone and the
lenticular stone, with a paper on the theory of the earth) ;
the author is a Genevese ; the book was printed by l’Honoré
in Amsterdam, 1729.
N. B. Le Journal latin de l’academie des curieux de la
nature (The Latin journal of the Academy of the investigators
of nature) ; likewise Le Journal des savans de Venise (Journal
of the learned of Venice).
Hesperi et Phosphori nova phænomena, seu observationes circa
planetam Veneris (New phenomena of the evening and morning
star, or observations concerning the planet Venus), by Fran
cisco Blanchini of Verona, with ten figures, 92 pages, folio,
Rome.* There are spots on this planet as on the moon, which
are perhaps oceans; it appeared through the telescope 112 times
larger than to the naked eye. These spots followed in order
and vanished on account of the diurnal motion of the planet.
As the equator is differently situated there, it produces a
change in the observation of the spots ; the poles are in a
perpendicular plane in respect to the ecliptic, and are in the
direction of the centre of the sun. There was a certain spot
which remained, while the others revolved ; that spot was in
the middle. The north-pole appeared subsequently ; it had the
appearance of a semi-circle. Its equator seemed most oblique
towards the plane of the orb, and the axis, around which it
revolved, seemed to incline much to that plane, which is the
same as our ecliptic, about 3 degrees; the angle formed by
the axis in that plane is about 15 degrees. On account of
the great obliquity of its equator in respect to its orbit or
orb, a great diversity in the seasons of spring, autumn, etc.
results. For the sun recedes 75 degrees from the equator on
both sides. The planet Mars, however, is constantly in a state
* See Bibliothèque Italique, Vol. VII, p. 82.
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