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ISBN: 978-0-915221-06-6
Format: Paperback
Pages: 33
Editor: None
Publisher: Swedenborg Scientific Association
Dimensions: 150x230mm
Language: English
Translator: Alfred Acton
Place of publication: Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania, USA.
Date of publication: 1950
Dock and Dam
by Emanuel Swedenborg
Synopsis
Swedenborg was an engineer to Charles XII of Sweden, helping to design and build a dry dock for the King’s navy at Karlskrona in 1716, which he writes about in the first of the two treatises published in this little booklet. In the second treatise, Swedenborg outlines a new way of constructing dams that had been devised by Swedenborg’s mentor Christopher Polhem. This booklet comes with a Preface from the translator and illustrative drawings by Gustav Grenzlinger.
Additional Information
Translations of two sections of Methodus nova inveniendi longitudines locorum terra marique ope lunae (1721).