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SWEDENBORG’S WRITINGS.
(no. 28) ; for on p. 532 he speaks of a work on "salt and the metals”
which is to follow.
1721. (27.) Epistola Nobilissimi Emanuelis Swedenborgii ad
Virum Celeberrimum Jacobum à Melle296 (Letter of Ema
nuel Swedenborg to Jacob à Melle). See Acta Literaria
Sueciæ for 1721, pp. 192 to 196.
This letter, which treats of the fluctuations of the primeval ocean,
is dated Stockholm, May 21 , 1721. It was translated into English
and appeared in the Acta Germanica, Vol. I, London, 1742 ; pp. 66
to 68; in 1847 it was again printed in the Appendix to the English
edition of Swedenborg’s Miscellaneons Observations, no 33.
1721. (28.) Prodromus Principiorum Rerum Naturalium,
sive Novorum Tentaminum Chymiam et Physicam experi
mentalem geometrice explicandi (A fore-runner of the first
principles of natural things, or of new attempts to explain
chemistry and experimental physics geometrically). Amster
dam, John Osterwyk ; 199 pages, 16mo.
The work opens with a discussion of the primeval ocean by which
the earth was covered in the beginning. The author then proceeds
to Part VIII of his Principia Naturalia, which treats of the
different positions of round particles. Parts I to VII seem to be
contained in the work discussed as no. 26. The remaining parts
or chapters of the work, which are liberally illustrated by diagrams,
are as follows : Part IX, the theory of water, briefly shewing the
geometrical properties and internal mechanism of its particles ;
Part X, the shapes of the interstices of water in the fixed quadri
lateral pyramidal position ; Part XI, the theory of common salt,
containing geometrical and experimental demonstrations ofthe internal
mechanism of its particles; Part XII, the theory of acid, containing
geometrical and experimental demonstrations of the particle of the
acid of salt, and shewing the mechanism of its figure; Part XIII,
the theory of nitre, containing geometrical and experimental demon
strations of its particles, and shewing the mechanism of their shape
and position; Part XIV, the theory of oil and of volatile urinous
salt [ammonia], stating the experiments on these substances, and briefly
explaining the geometry of the particles ; Appendix, containing some
general rules concerning transparency, and white , red, and yellow
colours; from the author’s theory respecting light and rays ; Part XXV,
the theory of lead, containing a geometrical and experimental demon
stration of its particles, or internal mechanism. The volume closes
with experiments on silver and mercury.
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