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Doc. 313.] 905
CHRONOLOGICAL ACCOUNT.
42. On the Petrifying Fluid : with remarks to prove that it is
not identical with the water that produces the Stalactite.
41. On Stalactites, and Crystallizations of Stone ; with remarks
on the resemblance of these formations to Congealed Water.
43. The formation of Quartz and Spar, with reasons shewing
the probability of their postdiluvian origin.
44. General observations on Furnaces for smelting Iron, with
suggestions for improving them.
This work was reviewed in the Acta Eruditorum of Leipzig,
for 1722, p. 262, and also for 1723, p. 96. It was translated into
English by Mr. Charles E. Strutt, and published by the Sweden
borg Association in 1847, under the following title, "Miscellaneous
Observations connected with the Physical Sciences."
1722. (34.) Fabula de Amore et Metamorphosi Uranies in
Virum et in famulum Apollinis, ad ’illustrissimum et ex
cellentissimum R. S. Senatorem, Comitem Mauritium
Wellingk297 (Fable of the love and metamorphosis of the
Muse Urania into a man and servant of Apollo , addressed
to the most illustrious and excellent Senator, Count Maurice
Wellingk). Schiffbeck, near Hamburg, 8 pages, 4to.
This elegiac poem is dated Brunswick, April 2, 1722 ; it is
signed E. S. It was introduced by Dr. Im. Tafel into the third
edition of the "Ludus Heliconius," published in Tübingen in 1841 .
1722. (35.) Expositio Legis Hydrostaticæ, qua demonstrari
potest effectus et vis aquæ diluvianæ altissimæ in saxa et
materias fundi sui (An Elucidation of a Law of Hydros
tatics, demonstrating the Power of the deepest Waters of
the Deluge, and their Action on the Rocks and other
Substances at the bottom of the Sea), published in the
Acta Literaria Sueciæ for 1722, pp. 353 to 356.
This paper is an answer to an attack on Swedenborg’s theory
that large rocks were shifted about at the bottom of the aboriginal
ocean; this attack is contained in a review of his Miscellanea
Observata, which appeared in the Historie der Gelehrsamkeit
unserer Zeiten, Leipzig, 1722, Part IV, p. 320. Further particulars
may be seen in Document 98, Vol. I, p. 333.
An English translation of this article appeared in London in 1742
in the Acta Germanica, Vol. I, pp. 122–124 ; and another trans
lation prepared by Mr. Strutt is contained in the appendix to his
English edition of the Miscellaneous Observations, pp. 156 to 159.
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