User:Eric Findlay

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Wiki Interests[edit]

Edo period (1600-1868) Japanese history.
Mid 1800-mid 1900 European history of scientific throught.
Economic theory.
Correction of Romanized Japanese words in passing.
Cleaning up book citations in passing.

Nice quotations[edit]

'How easily the learned give up the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of the ideas of their imagination'

from page 77 of Smith, Adam (1795). The Principles which Lead and Direct Philosophical Enquiries; Illustrated by the History of Astronomy, in Essays on Philosophical Subjects. Clarendon Press. {{cite book}}: line feed character in |title= at position 51 (help)