Abstract The histories of early modern religion and trade have both benefited from the global turn in recent years. This article brings two fields together through study religious objects Prague seventeenth century shows ways which practice were entangled with new commercial artistic ventures that crossed regional international borders. Among possessions seventeenth-century burghers had come ex...

An international symposium on Nicolaus Steno and brain research in the seventeenth century was held in Copenhagen on 18-20 August 1965. The meeting was sponsored by the International Academy of the History of Medicine and the International Brain Research Organization, and organized by the Danish Society for the History of Medicine. Fifty-seven members, representing fourteen countries, took part...

From the patristic period to the beginning of the seventeenth century curiosity was regarded as an intellectual vice. Curious individuals were considered to be proud and "puffed up," and the objects of their investigations were deemed illicit, dispute engendering, unknowable, or useless. Seventeenth-century projects for the advancement of learning had to distance themselves from curiosity and i...

centuries (C.B. Schmitt); science in the early Royal Society (M.D. Hall); science and religion in the seventeenth century (P.M. Rattansi); the growth of Netherlands science in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries (W. D. Hackmann); the rise and fall of Scottish science (J. R. R. Christie); scientific careers in eighteenth-century France (R. Hahn); the development of a professional care...

We present historical data on sovereign bond spreads drawn from 300 years of data (from the late seventeenth century to the late twentieth century), which appear to be inconsistent with the North and Weingast (1989) view that institutional changes and reforms can reduce the cost of government debt soon after they are implemented. Extended time series data on British government debt from the lat...