Background
In 1710, Swedenborg travelled from Sweden to London to complete his studies. When there he encountered many cutting edge intellectual discoveries, which inspired him to try and invent devices of his own, including a submarine and a flying machine. We know about this because he wrote about it in a letter home.
The sketch from his notebook was found in 1868 in Linköping by a visiting researcher from the United States of America, and dates from 1714. It is referred to as "The Manuscript": the published description is referred to as "The Published Account".
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