The generative organs : considered anatomically, physically, and philosophically / a posthumous work of Emanuel Swedenborg ... translated from the Latin by James John Garth Wilkinson.

  • Swedenborg, Emanuel, 1688-1772.
Date:
1852
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Credit: The generative organs : considered anatomically, physically, and philosophically / a posthumous work of Emanuel Swedenborg ... translated from the Latin by James John Garth Wilkinson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    ADVERTISEMENT. A particular account of the MS. volume from which the following Treatises are taken, has been given by Dr. Tafel in his edition of the originals.* In executing the translation we have aimed to represent the author's meaning as closely as pos- sible; but there are passages here and there where the sense is doubtful; and in these we have been literal, as the nearest approach to being faithful. The reader will occasionally find difficulties in his way; and he will kindly recollect, that he is reading a manuscript which there is reason to suppose was a first draft, and which would certainly not have been issued by Swedenborg in its present unfinished state. For this reason also the reader will be indulgent to the translator.f Yet the work as it stands is a worthy integrant part of that extraordinary series of works which more than a century ago * Eman. Swedenborgii, Sacrae Regiae Majestatis Regnique Sueciae Collegii Metallici Assessoris, Regnum Animale Anatomice, Physice et Philosophice perlustratum. Cujus supplementum sive Partis Sextae Sectio Secunda de Generatione, de partibus Genita- libus utriusque Sexus, et de Formatione Fcetus in Utero agit. E Chirographo ejus in Bibliotheca Regiae Academiae Holmiensis asservato, nunc prhnum edidit Dr. J. P. I. Tafel, Philosophise Professor et Regiae Bibliothecae Universitatis Tubingensis Prasfectus. Eman. Swedenborgii, Sacrae Regiae Majestatis Regnique Sueciae Collegii Metallici Assessoris, Regnum Animale Anatomice, Physice et Philosophice perlustratum. Cujus supplementum sive Partis Sextae Sectio Prima de Periosteo et de Mammis agit. E Chirographo ejus in Bibliotheca Regiae Academiae Holmiensis asservato, nunc primuni edidit Dr. J. F. I. Tafel, f In the first instance we had intended to publish with this volume a copious Index like that in our Translation of The Animal Kingdom; but upon second consi- deration we found that the work was too fragmentary to warrant such an addition to the size and cost of the present volume.