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920 SWEDENBORG’S WRITINGS. [Doc. 313.
1740. (55.) Philosophia Corpuscularis in Compendio (A sum
mary of Corpuscular Philosophy), in MS., 1 page, folio.
This is a most important summary of the corpuscular theory
propounded by the author in the "Principles of Chemistry," (no. 28) ,
and in the "Principia." He states here clearly the number of the
atmospheres, and specifies the particles which enter into the com
position of the several metals and salts. And at the end he makes
this memorable statement: " Hæc vera sunt quia signum habeo
these things are true, because I have the sign." The particular
sign to which Swedenborg here alludes is described in Docu
ment 208, p. 145.
For further particulars, see Document 310, Codex 57 , no. 12.
1740. (56, A.) Anatomia omnium partium Cerebri, Cerebelli,
Medulla oblongata et spinalis : et de morbis capitis (Ana
tomy of all the parts of the larger and lesser brains, of
the prolonged and the spinal marrows ; together with the
diseases of the head) ; in MS., 636 pages, folio.
This work is properly a re-cast in analytical order of the " Transactiones
Tres de Cerebro," which were described under no. 48. A beginning
of this re-cast, as we have shown, was made in no. 54, but in the
present volume it is finished, and written out neatly for the press.
The references from the old anatomists are almost all crossed out
in no. 48 and transferred to the present volume. Its contents are
minutely given in Document 309, Codex 55 .
As to the object of the present work, it seems at first to have
been intended by the author as a continuation of the Economia
Regni Animalis (no. 52), which consists of Transactions I and II ;
for among some prospectuses which are printed in Vol. VI of the
Photo-lithographed MSS. of Swedenborg, pp. 349 to 353, there are
several copies of what follows :
"Transaction III
.
The brain and its members ; the chemical laboratory of the brain ;
its organs.
Transaction IV.
1. The lesser brain.
2. The medulla oblongata.
3. The spinal marrow.
4. The pathology, or the diseases, of the head.
Transaction V.
(For contents of this Transaction, see no. 57.)
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