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De Telluribus in Mundo Nostro Solari (Concerning the Earths in the Universe) is a 1758 treatise by Swedish polymath Emanuel Swedenborg.[1][2][3] Taking the form of an account of Swedenborg claimed communication with extra-terrestrials, the work was used to communicate his theological ideas.[1] The work contained content originally published in Arcana Cœlestia, which was in turn drawn from Swedenborg's personal journal.[4]

Background

Intellectual context

Further information: History of science fiction

Works dealing with the question of other inhabited worlds have existed since at least ancient time, mainly in the context of discussions of cosmology. However, with the development of heliocentrism and the development of more empirical sciences, more speculative stories about intelligent life on other worlds began to develop.[4] These stories, such as Francis Godwin's The Man in the Moone, often came with a theological message.[4][3] The cosmology of René Descartes also influenced the addotion of the notion of uniformity in the universe.[4]

Swedenborg

Emanuel Swedenborg was a Swedish mine assessor, natural philosopher, biblical exegete, theologian and spirit-seer. In his early life his works had mainly been scientific and mathematical, but after a religious conversion in the mid-1740s he pivoted entilly to spiritual and mystical works—with his claimed clairvoyance making him famous.[2]

Content

Reception

Contemporary reception was generally negative, practically after its translation into German in 1770, by Friedrich Christoph Oetinger. This was largely down to Swedenborg's infamy as an alleged spirit-seer.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c Roy-Di Piazza, Vincent (October 2020). "'Ghosts from other planets': plurality of worlds, afterlife and satire in Emanuel Swedenborg's De Telluribus in mundo nostro solari (1758)". Annals of Science. 77 (4): 469–494. doi:10.1080/00033790.2020.1817557.
  2. ^ a b Dunér, David (June 2016). "Swedenborg and the Plurality of Worlds: Astrotheology in the Eighteenth Century". Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science. 51 (2): 450–479. doi:10.1111/zygo.12264.
  3. ^ a b Guthke, Karl S. (2003). "Nightmare and Utopia: Extraterrestrial Worlds from Galileo to Goethe". Early Science and Medicine. 8 (3): 173–195. ISSN 1383-7427.
  4. ^ a b c d Goerwitz III, Richard L. (April 1985). "Extraterrestrial life: a study of the intellectual context of Emanuel Swedenborg's earths in the universe". The New Philosophy. 88 (2). Swedenborg Scientific Association: 417–446.
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