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Posthumous work

The Brain

De cerebro

Retrato de Emanuel Swedenborg a los setenta y cinco años
byEmanuel Swedenborg

An anatomical manuscript written around 1738–1743 and published posthumously (1882–1887): a detailed study of the brain, the cerebellum and the spinal cord, with the thesis that the cortex is the seat of sensation and thought and that each region governs different parts of the body.

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English

Editions and translations

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English

  • The Brain, Considered Anatomically, Physiologically and Philosophically

    James Speirs (Londres), 1882

    Translation: Rudolph Leonhard Tafel

    2 vols., 1882–1887.

Other works by Emanuel Swedenborg

Sources

  • Gross, Charles G. «Emanuel Swedenborg: A Neuroscientist before His Time». En Brain, Vision, Memory: Tales in the History of Neuroscience. Cambridge (Mass.): MIT Press, 1998, pp. 119–135.

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