and Social Theory. 1.9. Incorrect Science, Imperfect Replication, and the Transformation of Scientific Ideas. 1.10. Inappropriate or Useless Analogies -- 2. The Scientific Revolution and the Social Sciences. 2.1. The "New Science" and the Sciences of Society. 2.2. The Seventeenth-Century Goal of a Social Science in Mathematical Form (Grotius, Spinoza, Vauban). 2.3. Political Arithmetic and Political Anatomy (Graunt and Petty). 2.4. An Independent "Civil" Science based on Motion (Hobbes). 2.5. The Notion of a Balance: A Social Science based on the New Physiology (Harrington) -- 3. A Conversation with Harvey Brooks on the Social Sciences, the Natural Sciences, and Public Policy -- A Note on "Social Science" and on "Natural Science."

One of the fruits of the scientific revolution was the idea of a social science that would operate in ways comparable to the newly triumphant natural sciences. This text offers a historical perspective on the interactions between the social and natural sciences.