>              SWEDENBORG ON LONGITUDE
>    In 1721 (Baron) Emanuel Swedenborg published a simple
> method for finding longitude from the moon.  It is known
> that he personally discussed it in London with Royal
> Astronomer Flamsteed and Edmond Halley.  Apparently neither
> of them thought it erroneous or incompetent.
>    Swedenborg of course later became world famous for
> publishing visionary theological speculations.  According to
> me he had a schizophrenic reaction at the age of 55 and gave
> up routine science to conduct the world's first scientific
> investigation of schizophrenic visions, and which resulted
> in his celebrated book _Heaven and Hell_; the world's most
> famous quasi-technical description of Life After Death.
>    What I want to know, is how brilliant a scientist and
> mathematician was he before he became fascinated with mental
> phenomena?  To wit; how competent and workable was his
> proposed method of finding Longitude by:
>        "observing the moon between two stars"
> as described at:
>
> http://www.thenewphilosophyonline.org/journal/article.php?page=1042&issue=106b
> http://www.thenewphilosophyonline.org/journal/article.php?page=1043&i...
>                      (two pages... click to second page)
>
>    I have not obtained the original and this online version
> has barely readable diagrams.
>    However, it appears simple, and a knowledgeable
> astrophysicist should be able to discern immediately what he
> was doing and whether it would work.
>    If anyone competent in this area could take 5 minutes to
> look at this and recognize how it worked.... could you
> explain it to this physicist in modern English and give an
> opinion as to how astute Swedenborg actually was as a
> scientist... bearing in mind he was only in his twenties
> when he dreamed up this longitude method and believed that
> it was a viable contender for the fabulous "Longitude Prize"
> offered by the British government in 1714.
> Very obliged, Hammond
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