In recent decades historians of science have argued that observation became something a way life in the early modern period. This article expands this analysis by shifting focus from observational practices within natural and experimental philosophy to number discourses self-examination self-observation eighteenth-century Germany. While initial aim these was therapeutic rather than scientific, ...

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This reinterpretation of Carl Wilhelm Scheele's (1742-86) early life and career analyses the social interplay between Scheele and other chemists who were active in eighteenth-century Sweden. It is argued that Scheele, a rather lowly journeyman working in peripheral pharmacies, had to work hard and traverse several geographical and social boundaries to gain a foothold in the scientific community...

For most of history, economics did not have a separate identity apart from social thought in general. Even as late as the eighteenth century, Adam Smith viewed economics as a subset of jurisprudence. This makes the search for fIrst principles of economic reasoning more difficult, not because the intellectual cupboard of antiquity was bare, but because the subject boundaries between the social s...