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>Books are grains of sand, countless as the birds of the air and the fish in the sea. Far too many books are written, Emanuel Swedenborg complained. Yet for his own part, he never managed to overcome the rather severe graphomania that haunted him right up to the end. Through time it resulted in a considerable heap of sand. Altogether his writings, translations of them, and books about him have built up an impressive and not inconsequential sandbank in the ocean of knowledge. Being stranded on this sandbank is not without risks. The quicksand of uncertainty and unreliability can give way beneath one’s feet, and waves of scrutiny can wash everything out to sea.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Swedenborg, in Swedberg (1709b), cf. 388–392; Ludus Heliconius, ed. Helander, 60f.

  2. 2.

    Eccles. 12:12; cf. Browallius, 10.

  3. 3.

    Swedberg (1941), 239, 527.

  4. 4.

    Roberg (1747), 27.

  5. 5.

    Swedenborg, in Gepriesenes Andencken, 93; Ludus Heliconius, ed. Helander, 82f, commentary 164.

  6. 6.

    De telluribus, n. 136.

  7. 7.

    Archimedes, Psammitēs, 1.1.1–2; translation, 221; Ludus Heliconius, ed. Helander, commentary 149; cf. Horace, 1.28.1.1–4; Sturm (1699), I, 11.

  8. 8.

    Archimedes, Psammitēs, 3.4.27–5.1; translation, 228.

  9. 9.

    Ovid, Ars amatoria, 1.253f.

  10. 10.

    Rudbeckius, 166; Ps. 139:18.

  11. 11.

    Gen. 13:16, 22:17, 28:14, 32:12; Num. 23:10; 1 Kings 4:20; Hos. 1:10; Jth. 2:20; Ecclus. 1:2, 44:21; Rom. 9:27.

  12. 12.

    Rydelius (1737), 161; Eccles. 1:15.

  13. 13.

    Peringskiöld, title page.

  14. 14.

    Spegel (1685), ed. Olsson and Nilsson, I:1, 189.

  15. 15.

    Agricola, translation, 8; cf. Wisd. of Sol. 7:9.

  16. 16.

    Brewster, II, 331.

  17. 17.

    Dalin (1744), 23.

  18. 18.

    Bonde, dedication; Edenborg (1997), 43.

  19. 19.

    Ginzburg (1979), 93, 109; Ginzburg (1986), translation, 96–125.

  20. 20.

    Boyle (1965), 194.

  21. 21.

    Blake (1989), 589.

  22. 22.

    Swedberg (1941), 239; SSA, CIa:10.

  23. 23.

    Then swenska psalm-boken (1694), Ps. 389:3.

  24. 24.

    Linnaeus (1742), 298.

  25. 25.

    Below and Ribe. KVA.

  26. 26.

    Rhyzelius (1901), 38; cf. Broberg (1990), 90–104.

  27. 27.

    Preparatory notes for the dissertation from Cicero, Plautus, and Florus can be found in KVA, cod. 37; cf. Opera I, 202; Letters I, 4.

  28. 28.

    Opera I, 201; Letters I, 3.

  29. 29.

    Swedenborg, in Palmroot and Unge, 14; Ludus Heliconius, ed. Helander, 62f.

  30. 30.

    Bredberg, 112, cf. 118–120.

  31. 31.

    Resebeskrifningar, v.

  32. 32.

    De commercio animæ et corporis, n. 20.

  33. 33.

    Prosperin, 11.

  34. 34.

    Spear; Suzuki.

  35. 35.

    Munich, January 1818; Cited in Horn, translation, 32.

  36. 36.

    Schubert, 10; Jonsson (1983b), 169.

  37. 37.

    ‘Emanuel Swedenborg’, Borges (1989), 287; Borges (1982); translation, 16; Báez-Rivera, 73; Kutik, 79.

  38. 38.

    Tafel, 5–6; Holmquist (1909b); Eby; Söderberg (1989), 53–72; Williams-Hogan (2002), 227–244; Rose (2004), 7; Rose (2005).

  39. 39.

    See also Stroh and Ekelöf; Wainscot; Woofenden (2002).

  40. 40.

    Stroh (1912, 1918); see also Potts; concerning Swedenborg’s Latin, Chadwick; Berggren; Chadwick and Rose.

  41. 41.

    Svante Arrhenius wrote about Swedenborg as an astronomer, Gustaf Retzius and Martin Ramström about his research on the brain, Hjalmar Sjögren about geology, Gustaf Eneström about mathematics, and Wilhelm Oseen published Swedenborg manuscripts. These are only short essays; see Ramström, Retzius; Nordenmark (1933); Stroh (1908); Transactions of the International Swedenborg Congress 1910; cf. Broberg (1983), 120f, 127.

  42. 42.

    Lamm (1915), translation, xxiii.

  43. 43.

    Jonsson (1961), translation, 10, 175; cf. Lamm (1915), translation, 184; otherwise there are four dissertations about Swedenborg: Schlieper; Kirven; Calatrello; Woofenden (1970).

  44. 44.

    Since Sandels, the ones that have attracted most attention are: Kleen; Toksvig; Benz; Sigstedt; cf. Lenhammar (1988).

  45. 45.

    Jonsson (2002), 312f; see also Crasta (2002); N. Newton (1999); Holmquist (1909a, 1913); Lindh (1927–1929); Piotrowska, 29–38; Brock; Hoppe; Jonsson (2008).

  46. 46.

    Works have been written about such readers of Swedenborg as Oetinger, Kant, Goethe, Blake, Coleridge, Schelling, Boström, Balzac, Emerson, Whitman, and Baudelaire. See e.g. Florschütz; McNeilly (2004, 2005); Rix; Stengel; Wilkinson; dissertations about the reception of Swedenborg and about Swedenborgianism are, among others: Lenhammar (1966); Williams-Hogan (1985); Sjödén; Hallengren (1994); Häll; see also Garrett; Hallengren (1989); Hjern; Hanegraaff (1996), 424–429; Sanner; Gabay; Hanegraaff (2007); Williams-Hogan (2008).

  47. 47.

    Miłosz (2000), 137; Miłosz (2007), 1–16.

  48. 48.

    Atran; Tomasello (1999); Turner; Richardson and Steen; Tomasello (2005), 203–217; Atran and Medin; Boyd; Dutton.

  49. 49.

    Mithen; Renfrew, Frith and Malafouris.

  50. 50.

    Nersessian (1992), 4–7, 36–38; Nersessian (1995), 194–211; Nersessian (2005); see also Lawson (1994), 481–495; Gooding; Tweney, 141–173; Carruthers, Stich and Siegal; Heintz, 391–408; Lawson (2004), 1–5; Whitehouse, 307–318.

  51. 51.

    Olson; Netz (1999); Andersen, Barker and Chen; Martin and Sørensen.

  52. 52.

    Lakoff, 371.

  53. 53.

    Lotman (1990), 271.

  54. 54.

    Lakoff and Johnson (1999), 3, 7, 10; Johnson; Varela, Thompson and Rosch; Krois et al.; Calvo and Gomila.

  55. 55.

    Bergquist (2000a), 22; Lakoff and Johnson (1999), 556f.

  56. 56.

    Skinner, 15–19, cf. 48; Rorty, 73.

  57. 57.

    Resebeskrifningar 21 June 1733, 17; Documents II:1, 22, cf. 67f.

  58. 58.

    Lakoff and Johnson (1999), 38; cf. Gärdenfors (2000b).

  59. 59.

    A. Clark; Clark and Chalmers, 7–19; Brinck, 407–431.

  60. 60.

    Gärdenfors (2008b), 81.

  61. 61.

    Giere, 285–299; Giere and Mofatt, 1–10.

  62. 62.

    Gärdenfors (1992), 95–108.

  63. 63.

    Gärdenfors (2008a), 28.

  64. 64.

    Lakoff and Johnson (1999), 36; Johnson, 101–138; Lakoff and Núñez, 34.

  65. 65.

    Cassirer (1953), 65, cf. 286; Cassirer (1923), I, 146–166; an unconvincing attempt to prove similarities between Cassirer’s symbol theory and Swedenborg’s doctrine of correspondences can be found in Gardiner.

  66. 66.

    H. Vallerius and Rimmius, 15; see also H. Vallerius and Bohm, 13.

  67. 67.

    Lotman (1990), 131–133, 136.

  68. 68.

    Lotman (1990), 273.

  69. 69.

    Aristotle, Peri poiētikēs, 21.1457b6–32.

  70. 70.

    Lakoff and Johnson (1980), 14, 17, 25, 30; cf. Gärdenfors (2000a), 2, 255.

  71. 71.

    Lakoff and Johnson (1999), 59; Lakoff and Núñez, 41.

  72. 72.

    Danesi, 73f, 78.

  73. 73.

    Lakoff and Johnson (1999), 338–341, 511.

  74. 74.

    There are of course exceptions, see Crombie, part IV; Spranzi, 451–483.

  75. 75.

    Sellberg (2002), 104f; Örneholm, 78–81.

  76. 76.

    Mazzeo, 54; Helander (1988), 30.

  77. 77.

    Vico (1744); Danesi, 62; Marshall.

  78. 78.

    Jonsson (1983a), 88.

  79. 79.

    Bacon (1620), § 49.

  80. 80.

    Fleck, translation 99; Eriksson (1994), 149–162; Choluj and Joerden.

  81. 81.

    Spengler, 89; translation, 61.

  82. 82.

    Wilson; Ratcliff; cf. S. Clark.

  83. 83.

    Ornstein, 175.

  84. 84.

    Swedenborg to Benzelius, London, October 1710. Opera I, 207; Spaak and Althin, 44, 49.

  85. 85.

    Prodromus principiorum, ed. Opera III, 23, 95; translation, 27, 120.

  86. 86.

    Reisberg, 57f, 91f, 352.

  87. 87.

    Panofsky, translation, 67–72; Kemp, 41; Edgerton (1980), 179–213; Edgerton (2009); perspective artists are mentioned by Swedenborg, Resebeskrifningar 13 July 1733, 28; Documents II:1, 35f.

  88. 88.

    Regel-konsten, 4f.

  89. 89.

    H. Vallerius and Rosell, 18, 20; cf. H. Vallerius and Schultin; H. Vallerius and Bredenberg.

  90. 90.

    H. Vallerius and Swebilius, § XII.

  91. 91.

    Selectæ sententiæ, 24, 28; translation, 17f, 21.

  92. 92.

    Lotman (1990), 13, 218; Lotman (1967); Portis-Winner, 35f.

  93. 93.

    Chartier, 8f, 21f; Lotman (1996), 64.

  94. 94.

    Swedenborg’s inaccurate quotation technique has been demonstrated by Jonsson (1961), translation, 113.

  95. 95.

    Ong, 101f.

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Dunér, D. (2013). Introduction. In: The Natural philosophy of Emanuel Swedenborg. Studies in the History of Philosophy of Mind, vol 11. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4560-5_1

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