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Swedenborg's flying saucer
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 July 2016
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As early as 1714, when he was 26, Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) showed an interest in the possibility of building a flying machine. Writing from Rostock on 8th September 1714 to his brother-in-law Erik Benzelius, he ambitiously listed 14 inventions which he had under way and about which he had prepared manuscript notes. The projected inventions included ‘a kind of flying chariot, or the possibility of being sustained in the air and of being carried through it’. Two years later, in 1716, Swedenborg founded Sweden's first scientific journal, Daedalus Hyperboreus, in the fourth number of which he anonymously published a short article entitled ‘Utkast til en Machine at flyga i wädret’ (Sketch of a Machine for Flying in the Air).
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