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DOCUMENT 228.
EMANUEL SWEDENBORG TO ARCHBISHOP
MENANDER.180*
Most reverend Doctor and Bishop,
I send you a lucubration of my youth on find
ing the longitude of places by land and sea by means of the
moon, which has just been published at Amsterdam,† and
communicated to the learned societes and universities ; and I
would kindly ask you to put it into the hands of the professor
of astronomy at Abo, so that if it meets with his approval,
he may put it in practice. Several in foreign parts at present
compute ephemerides by pairs of stars according to this method ;
and after they have been computed for several years, a great
practical use is expected from them.
The Apocalypse has now been explained, or rather revealed,
but I have not yet met with an opportunity for sending it to
you, and at the same time to the Library.
* A copy of the Latin original of this Document was discovered by
the Editor during his stay in Sweden in 1869. From this the above
translation has been made. In 1784 an English translation of this letter
was published in the appendix to the first English edition of the "Doctrine
of the Lord;" and in 1785 a French translation appeared in the appendix
to the French edition of the "Intercourse between the Soul and the Body,"
published in London. From the latter Dr. Im. Tafel prepared the translation
which he included in his German edition of the "Swedenborg Documents."
The English translation of this letter which is contained both in the English
and American editions of the " Swedenborg Documents" was prepared by
the English editor either from the French translation of 1785, or from
Dr. Tafel’s German translation.
+ Concerning this edition of the " Method for finding the Longitude."
Bee Document 203.
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