This brief draws on the first modern book about Carl Wilhelm Scheele
which was published in Swedish in 2015. Following an introduction and
bibliography of Scheele's published works, the author analyses Scheele's
publications paragraph by paragraph, explaining the procedures and the
results in modern terms, and summarising and elucidating Scheele's
conclusions. Up until now the original works by Scheele have only in
part been translated into English, and to get a complete view of
Scheele's work, knowledge of both Swedish and German was required. This
brief opens up the important work of Carl Wilhelm Scheele to an
international audience of historians of chemistry, students of history
of chemistry and interested chemists.