Emanuel Swedenborg's Investigations in Natural Science and the Basis for His Statements Concerning the Functions of the Brain

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

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