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1256 NOTES TO VOLUME II.
NOTE 277.
LEEUWENHOEK.
Excerpts from Leeuwenhoek’s works are contained in Codices 53
and 57 ; those in Codex 53 have been photo-lithographed in Vol. VI
of the Swedenborg MSS., pp. 177-184. Antony von Leeuwenhoek
was a celebrated Dutch microscopist, and maker of microscopes; born
at Delft in 1632, died in 1723. He devoted himself unintermittingly
for fifty years to the use of the microscope, apparently without any
other end than the accumulation of observations ; for he neither
attempted to found a theory, nor to draw conclusions : nevertheless,
he pursued his minute researches with too much singleness, not to
elicit many facts which were of use to others. His works were
mostly published in Dutch, and afterwards translated into Latin ; they
are as follows : (1) Arcana Naturæ detecta, Delft, 1695 ; Leyden
1722; (2) Continuatio Arcanorum Naturæ detectorum, Delft, 1697 ;
Leyden, 1722 ; (3) Epistolæ Physiologica, Delft, 1719.
NOTE 278.
SWAMMERDAM.
Swedenborg made great use of Swammerdam’s works, especially
of his Biblia Natura; in fact he wrote a commentary on a greater
part of that work (see Document 313, no. 70, p. 937). Additional
excerpts are contained in Codex 57 (Document 310, p. 859). John
Swammerdam, the celebrated Dutch anatomist and entomologist, was
born in Amsterdam in 1637. He introduced the use of wax injections,
and invented the now received method of making dry preparations
of hollow organs. He was an admirable microscopist, and dissector of
minute objects, and employed many peculiar and ingenious instruments
and methods in his researches. Notwithstanding his scientific
studies, he appears in the Biblia Naturæ to have constantly kept in
view the end of displaying the wisdom and power of God as mani
fested in the animal creation. In the latter part of his life he
became a follower of Madame Bourignon, and an admirer of
Jacob Boehme,40 and ultimately forsook all his physical and ana
tomical studies, in order to attend to his spiritual concerns. His
great work, Biblia Naturæ, sive Historia Insectorum, in classes certas
reducta, was published in folio, Leyden, 1737, in Dutch and Latin,
with a life of the author by Boerhaave, who bought the manuscript
of the work, and printed it at his own expense. The Latin version
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