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DOCUMENT 311.
LIST OF SWEDENBORG’S SCIENTIFIC PAPERS
PRESERVED IN THE CATHEDRAL-LIBRARY OF
LINKÖPING.
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These papers, which were written between 1716 and 1721,
are preserved in the cathedral-library of Linköping among the
papers of the late Archbishop Ericus Benzelius. The volume
containing them is No. 40 of the Benzelius Collection, and
bears the following title, " Collectanea Physico- Mathematica, with
several papers concerning the Natural History of Sweden, con
taining documents read before the Literary Society of Upsal."
Most of these papers, twenty-six in all, have been photo
lithographed, and constitute Vol. I of Swedenborg’s Photo
lithographed MSS. They are as follows:
1. A plan for the establishment of a literary society, under
twelve heads, p. 1.*
2. A plan for the institution (1) of a mechanical labora
tory, (2) of an astronomical observatory, (3) of a mathe
matical society, p. 2. See Documents 55 and 59.
3. The importance of instituting an Astronomical Obser
vatory in Sweden ; with a plan by which this may be
carried out; pp. 3 to 6.
This plan was communicated by Swedenborg to the Royal Secretary
Cederholm, as appears from Document 73. This paper is thoroughly
discussed in Document 313, no. 9.
4. A paper on the means of promoting the economical
welfare of a country, pp. 7 to 18.
This paper is in Swedenborg’s handwriting, and is on that account
ascribed to him in the Index to the MS. volume in which it is
contained. From the preface to this paper, however, which is signed
Ch. P. [Christopher Polhem], it appears that the ideas in it were
comunicated to Polhem first by a citizen of Carlscrona. These ideas he
* The pages refer to the photo-lithographed volume.
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