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The Animal Kingdom

Regnum animale anatomice, physice et philosophice perlustratum

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

Three volumes (The Hague and London, 1744–1745) of a projected seventeen on the organs of the body as a way to know the soul; it was cut short by the spiritual crisis of those years. In the first, the doctrine of correspondences appears for the first time, later to become the key to his whole theology.

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Editions and translations

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English

  • The Animal Kingdom, Considered Anatomically, Physically and Philosophically

    Walton & Mitchell (Londres), 1844

    Translation: James John Garth Wilkinson

Latín

  • Regnum animale

    La Haya / Londres, 1744

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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