Miscellaneous Observations Connected with the Physical Sciences
London: William Newbery, 1847. Octavo, half-leather binding with title stamped in gilt to spine, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled, vignette of the Swedenborg Society printed at top of the Contents page, nine b&w plates, index, pp xvi, 168. (Plates II and III, both intended to face p. 12, have been bound in as III then II.) Top corner scraped to edge, light rubbing other corners, some light rubbing head of spine and along spine edges. Previous owner's bookplate (Claude Toby) front endpaper. Text and plates very clean. Very good condition.
Swedenborg's observations and speculations on a wide array of physical sciences, in four parts. (According to the translator, the first three parts were published in Leipzig in 1722, and the fourth part was published the same year at Schiffbeck near Hamburg and is 'exceedingly scarce'). Translated from the Latin for the first time by Charles Edward Strutt, member of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. Includes illustrations for Swedenborg's arguments, e,g. petrified plants and shells, and diagrams and mechanical devices. Swedenborg also addresses the (im)possibility of transmuting metal into gold. First edition of an unusual Swedenborg work: a reminder that he was a scientist and an inventor as well as a theologian and a mystic. Item #104301
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