EMANUEL SWEDENBORG’S INVESTIGATIONS IN NATURAL SCIENCE AND THE BASIS FOR HIS STATEMENTS CONCERNING THE FUNCTIONS OF THE BRAIN 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. [Illustration] EMANUEL SWEDENBORG’S INVESTIGATIONS IN NATURAL SCIENCE AND THE BASIS FOR HIS STATEMENTS CONCERNING THE FUNCTIONS OF THE BRAIN [Illustration] BY MARTIN RAMSTRÖM [Illustration] UNIVERSITY OF UPPSALA 1910 [Illustration] UPPSALA ALMQVIST & WIKSELL, PRINTING CO., LTD. 1910 CONTENTS 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. On the centres of the vegetative functions 27 On the centres of the psychical functions, especially the sensory centres 28 On the centres of the motor functions 32 The doctrine of localizations 35 The ›cerebellular theory› 43 Concluding summary 47 Notes 50 EMANUEL SWEDENBORG’S INVESTIGATIONS IN NATURAL SCIENCE AND THE BASIS FOR HIS STATEMENTS CONCERNING THE FUNCTIONS OF THE BRAIN