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STUDIES IN 1743 AND 1744. 1091
From all this, therefore, it follows clearly that the chronological
dates given in the "Private Diary of 1743 and 1744" agree fully with
the collateral dates that exist of Swedenborg’s life at that time.
NOTE 164.
SWEDENBORG’S STUDIES IN 1743 AND 1744.
In order to bring this subject clearly before our readers we pro
pose to subjoin here a short résumé of what has been proved in
respect to Swedenborg’s studies in 1743 and 1744, in Docu
ment 313.
I. In no 71, p. 937, we learn that when Swedenborg left Sweden
in 1743 the MS. of the Regnum Animale "was so far completed,
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 in December he arrived at the Hague
to superintend the printing of that work. The original plan of this
work according to which it would fill four stout volumes of 500 sheets
is contained in no. 56, A, p. 921 .
II. After arriving in Holland Swedenborg enlarged the plan of
the Regnum Animale by embodying with it the substance of his
Economia, etc., and he broke up the original four volumes into
seventeen parts. A list of these seventeen parts is given in
no. 71, p. 937.
III. The first two parts, viz., those treating of the viscera of the
abdomen and of the thorax, were published in agreement with the
original programme at the Hague; yet in comparing the contents of
the published parts with those given in the prospectus on p. 349 of
Vol. VI of the Photo-lithographed MSS. of Swedenborg, two entirely
new chapters "on the glands in general," and "on the diaphragm,"
are found to have been added, together with the epilogues at the
end of the first and of the second parts; the arrangement also of
some of the chapters is found changed; so that it becomes very
evident that Swedenborg on arriving in Holland submitted to a most
careful revision those parts of the Regnum Animale which were
published there.
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