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938 [Doc. 313.
SWEDENBORG’S WRITINGS.
collecting some necessary information in the libraries abroad, I shall
be able to publish it at once." At the close of his letter he conti
nues, "With regard to the time that will be required, I cannot
determine any thing, inasmuch as the work to be published will
amount to about 500 sheets, and the despatch with which this can
be done will depend on the publisher and printer."
The work to which Swedenborg alludes here is his Regnum
Animale, of which he published Parts I and II at the Hague in
1744; and from the letter to the College of Mines on this subject
which we have just quoted, it appears that the MS. of this work
had been "so far completed [in Sweden], that after collecting some
necessary information in the libraries abroad, he would be able to
publish it at once."
From Note 163 it appears that after arriving in Holland towards
the close of August 1743, he spent the months of September, October,
and November in Amsterdam, and perhaps also in the neighbouring
university of Leyden, in order "
to collect in the libraries there some
necessary information," and prepare his MS. for the press ; and in
December he arrived at the Hague to superintend the printing of it.
In the form in which he had brought his MS. from Sweden it
consisted of the four large volumes of which a full prospectus is
given in no. 56, A. The titles of the several volumes were as follows :
"Volume I: The Anatomy of the body, of all its viscera, the
generative organs, and the organs of the five senses.
Volume II: The Anatomy of all the parts of the larger and
lesser brains, of the prolonged and the spinal marrows, together with
the diseases of the head.
Volume III: Introduction to Rational Psychology.
Volume IV: Rational Psychology."
In Holland Swedenborg enlarged the plan of his Regnum Animale
by embodying in it the substance of his Economia Regni Animalis;
he also broke up the original arrangement in four volumes, and
issued instead the following prospectus of seventeen parts, which is
printed in the preface to Part I, as published at the Hague
in 1744:
"Part I. The viscera of the abdomen.
II. The viscera of the thorax.
III. The heart, the arteries, the veins, and the blood.
IV. The genital members of males.
V. The genital members of females : and the formation
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of the foetus in the uterus.
Part VI. The organs of the external senses.
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