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912 SWEDENBORG’S WRITINGS. [Doc. 313.
likewise respecting the various chemical preparations and
experiments made with copper, &c.), 534 pages, folio, with
many copper engravings.
The volume is dedicated to King Frederic I of Sweden. The
preface was translated into English by the Rev. A. Clissold and
printed in the appendix to his English translation of the "Principia."
This work like the preceding consists of three sections, the contents
of which are as follows :
Section I. The methods of smelting copper in Sweden and Norway,
pp. 1 to 132 ; the methods of smelting it in the rest of Europe,
pp. 133 to 207 ; the methods of smelting proposed by various authors,
pp. 208 to 246 ; the separation of silver and copper (the greater part
of this chapter is likewise contained in Codex 84 of the Swedenborg
MSS., which is discussed under no. 38 in the present Document), pp. 247
to 340; on brass and its preparation, in which calamine, as the chief
zinc-ore, is likewise discussed, pp. 341 to 360; on the composition of
bell-metal and the alloys of copper with other metals, pp. 361 to 400.
Section II. On the various copper ores, and the various methods
of assaying them, pp. 401 to 446.
Section III. On various chemical preparations and experiments
made with copper and brass, which includes a chapter on the
manufacture of ultramarine, pp. 447 to 520 ; miscellaneous observa
tions on copper, pp. 521 to 534.
1734. (46.) Prodromus Philosophiæ ratiocinantis de Infinito
et causa finali Creationis: deque mechanismo operationis
Animæ et Corporis (Outlines of a philosophical argument on
the Infinite, and the final cause of Creation; and on the
mechanism of the operation of Soul and Body). Dresden
and Leipzig, Hekel, 1734 ; pp. 270, 8vo.
This little work was dedicated by the author to Bishop Ericus
Benzelius, his brother-in-law, and consists of two distinct parts, of
which the first bears the title, The Infinite, and the final cause of
creation, and the second, the Mechanism of the Intercourse between
the Soul and the Body.
Two English translations of this work have been published, the
first in Manchester, 1795, under the auspices of the Rev. W. Cowherd;
and the second, prepared by Dr. J. J. Garth Wilkinson, was published
by the Swedenborg Association in 1847.
The work was reviewed in the Acta Eruditorum for 1735,
pp. 556-559, but no positive opinion was expressed of its merits,
although the critic hinted that it has a materialistic tendency.
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