Reprinted from the festival publication of the University of Uppsala
on the occasion of the bicentenary of the Royal Society of Sciences of Uppsala
and of the unveiling of the sarcophagus of Emanuel
Swedenborg in the cathedral of Uppsala.
November 19th, 1910.
EMANUEL SWEDENBORG’S
INVESTIGATIONS IN NATURAL SCIENCE
AND THE BASIS FOR HIS STATEMENTS
CONCERNING THE
FUNCTIONS OF
THE BRAIN
BY
MARTIN RAMSTRÖM
UNIVERSITY OF UPPSALA
1910
UPPSALA
ALMQVIST & WIKSELL, PRINTING CO., LTD.
1910
Pag. | |
Frontispiece, reproduced from a copper engraving in Swedenborg’s ›Opera Philosophica et Mineralia›, Vol. I., printed in Dresden and Leipzig, in 1734. | |
Title Page | 5 |
The vignette on the title page is reproduced from the medal struck in honour of Emanuel Swedenborg, in 1852, by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. | |
Introduction | 9 |
Swedenborg’s investigations in natural science. | |
Swedenborg’s mathematical, mechanical and astronomical investigations | 11 |
Swedenborg’s geological, mineralogical, chemical, physical, and cosmological investigations | 14 |
Swedenborg’s anatomical and physiological investigations | 16 |
The basis for Swedenborg’s statements concerning the functions of the brain. |