LINNÉ EXPLAINING HIS RELIGIOUS FAITH

LINNÉ, CARL VON.

Carl von Linnés anteckningar öfver Nemesis divina. Inbjudnings-skrift till morgondagens philosophiska promotion från Upsala universitets stiftelse den sjutiiondesjunde.

Upsala, Kongl. Academiska Boktryckeriet, 1848. Folio. Partly uncut in the original printed wrappers. With several nicks (not affecting text) to wrappers and corners bended. 14 ff.

First printing of Linné's renowned manuscript in which he explained his moral principles, religious faith and his development from a sceptic or unbeliever as young into a believer when he reached maturity.

"Linné had left to the care and for the study of his son, and successor as professor in Botany at Uppsala, Carl von Linné, jun., a manuscript, which for a long time was supposed to be lost, but which recently was accidentally found, and deposited in the Academical library at Uppsala. This document, know under the name of "Nemesis Divina", because it principally inculcates the doctrine of a divine retribution, also informs the reader of Linné's moral principles and whole religious faith". Swedish professor Elias Fries published part of the manuscript in the present publication.

This Linnean "Nemesis Divina" resembles Swedenborg's "Diarium Spirituale"; Both are written not for their authors contemporaries, but for posterity and both are designed to prove the punishment of evil.

Soulsby 1060.
Hulth s. 165.

Order-nr.: 51658