Opera philosophica et mineralia. Tres tomi.- Principia rerum naturalium sive Novorum Tentaminum Phaenomena.- Regnum Subterraneum sive minerale de Cupro et Orchidalco.- Regnum subterraneum sive mineral
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Hoover, 773-775 (chaque partie séparément) ; Wheeler Gift, 283 (« this is the author s famous work on science ») ; Wheatland, 222; DSB, XIII, 179. Manque à Neville et à Cole (seulement la traduction anglaise). Édition originale. Les œuvres scientifiques les plus importantes de Swedenborg (1688-1772), le grand scientifique, philosophe et chef religieux suédois. « Swedenborg s career is one of the most remarkable in the history of science. In his youth and early manhood he wa an enthousiastic scientist and technologist, and published a number of articles in various fields. Almost imperceptibly he turned to religious speculation, which, after a decicive divine revelation, led him to become a visionary and the founder of a religious sect » (DSB). Le premier volume s intitule Principia Rerum Naturalium et « was probably conceived as counterpart to Newton s Principia . He sought to comprehensive physical explanation of the world based on mathematical and mechanical principles » (DSB). « Volume I contains 250 pages of printed matter with diagrams and illustrations on the causes and mechanisms of magnetic force; the law of distance; magnetic declinatinon, its causes and how its value may be calculated » (Wheeler Gift). L ouvrage contient également un traité très important sur l aimant (pp. 123-372). Swedenborg y détaille les résultats d expériences et énonce les lois relatives aux forces et aux effets magnétiques et électriques. Il précède de quatorze ans le célèbre traité de Béraud
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