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78 SWEDENBORG’S TRAVELS AND DIARIES. [Doc. 206.
Schutenhjelm.* I learned that among those most celebrated
for their learning in Copenhagen are Kramer, the Councillor
of Justice and Librarian, who is distinguished for history and
philology; Prof. Holberg who has written Danish comedies,
and a history of Norway; and Rosencrantz, the privy coun
cillor and prime-minister. The learned have spoken favourably
of my work.t The same day I saw Wolf’s 18 Natural
Theology ; where, without mentioning my name, he seems to
refer to me.
July 21. I made excerpts from Wolf’s Ontologia and Cos
mologia, of those parts which I shall need on the way, in order
to examine more thoroughly his first principles of philosophy.
July 22. In company with Secretary Witt I was at the
library, which is magnificent, and excellently arranged; Kramer,
the Councillor of Justice, had already gone away. It con
sists of 70,000 volumes ; the octavo volumes are at the top,
where access is obtained by a gallery running round the in
terior. They showed me Cicero’s work printed at Mayence in
1456, which is supposed to be the first book ever printed ;
they showed me also my own work, but without knowing I was
its author. Afterwards I visited the dry dock, which is in
process of building ; although we had not permission to enter.
It is a great undertaking; the sides are lined with planks and
beams, and it is about 180 ells long. Water-springs are said
to rise from the deep, by which the work is obstructed, rendered
costly, and much protracted ; if this is so, the expense of
pumping out the water must continue ever afterwards ; these
springs are stopped up with clay and other materials. No work
has at yet been done on the side next the sea or at the mouth,
where the greatest skill and labour are required, so as to
* Anders Schutenhjelm or Skutenhjelm was the Swedish ambassador at
the Danish Court. He was born in 1788, and, after filling various offices
in the Department for Foreign Affairs in Stockholm, was appointed in
1734 Councillor of Court and minister in Copenhagen. He married Baroness
Düben, with whom Swedenborg and Bishop Swedberg were on terms of
intimacy, as appears from Document 113.
Probably the Principia.
These excerpts occupy 93 pages in the same Codex, in which this
Journal of Travel is contained.
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