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1264 NOTES TO VOLUME II.
NOTE 291.
RIDLEY.
Henry Ridley, one of the authorities whom Swedenborg consulted
in his treatises on the brain (see Document 310, Codex 74, p. 867),
was an English anatomist of some note. The work by which he
made himself known is entitled : "The Anatomy of the Brain, con
taining its mechanism and physiology," London, 1695. A Latin
edition was published in 1705, and also at Leyden in 1725. Dr.
Wilkinson observes that "there is a paper of Ridley’s in the ’Philo
sophical Transactions,’ no. 287, detailing a case of vivisection, in
which the systolic motion of the brain was observed to be continued
and even increased after the division of the dura mater."
NOTE 292.
PROFESSOR QUENSEL.
Professor Conrad Quensel of Lund started some objections to
Swedenborg’s "Method of finding the Longitude," discussed in Docu
ment 313, no. 17, p. 894, and also in Document 311 , no. 29, p. 879.
He was born in 1676, and distinguished himself in the University
of Åbo by his mathematical talent. In 1704 he was appointed pro
fessor of mathematics in the University of Pernau in Livonia. In
1710 he was obliged to flee to Stockholm on account of the approach
of the Russians ; on arriving in Stockholm he found the pestilence
raging there by which he lost his wife and one of his sons. In 1712
he received from Charles XII in Bender the decree appointing him
professor of mathematics in Lund. There he continued until 1735
when he died.
NOTE 293.
KLINGENSTJERNA.
Samuel Klingenstjerna was one of Swedenborg’s correspondents,
whose letters have unfortunately been lost (see Document 312,
no. 22, p. 883). He was one of the foremost mathematicians of
Sweden, and it would have been interesting to know the relations
which he occupied in respect to Swedenborg. He was born in 1698,
and his taste for mathematics was so pronounced, that after he had
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