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Mechanical experiments as moral exercise in the education of George III
FLORENCE GRANT
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The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 48 / Issue 2 / June 2015

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01 August 2014, pp. 195-212

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In 1761, George III commissioned a large group of philosophical instruments from the London instrument-maker George Adams. The purchase sprang from a complex plan of moral education devised for Prince George in the late 1750s by the third Earl of Bute. Bute's plan applied the philosophy of Frances Hutcheson, who placed ‘the culture of the heart’ at the foundation of moral education. To complement this affective development, Bute also acted on seventeenth-century arguments for the value of experimental philosophy and geometry as exercises that habituated the student to recognizing truth, and to pursuing it through long and difficult chains of reasoning. The instruments required for such exercise thus became tools for manipulating moral subjectivity. By the 1730s there was a variety of established modes in which the Newtonian philosophy might be used to argue for the legitimacy of Hanoverian rule. The education of George III represents a less recognized iteration of this relationship, concerned not with public apologetics, but rather with the transformation of an ‘indolent’ youth into a virtuous monarch.

James O'Brien, The Scientific Sherlock Holmes: Cracking the Case with Science and Forensics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. xx+175. ISBN 978-0-19979496-6. £18.99 (hardback).
Georgette Taylor
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The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 47 / Issue 3 / September 2014

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24 July 2014, pp. 577-579

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Heiner Fangerau, Rethy Chhem, Irmgard Müller and Shih-Chang Wang (eds.), Medical Imaging and Philosophy: Challenges, Reflections and Actions. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2012. Pp. 190. ISBN 978-3-515-10046-5. €38.00 (paperback).
Norberto Serpente
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The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 47 / Issue 3 / September 2014

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24 July 2014, pp. 581-583

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The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 47 / Issue 3 / September 2014

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24 July 2014, pp. 585-586

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Sanja Perovic, The Calendar in Revolutionary France: Perceptions of Time in Literature, Culture, Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. xiv+276. ISBN 978-1-107-02595-0. £55.00 (hardback).
Kostas Tampakis
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The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 47 / Issue 3 / September 2014

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24 July 2014, pp. 574-575

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Daniel Stolzenberg, Egyptian Oedipus: Athanasius Kircher and the Secrets of Antiquity. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2013. Pp. xi+307. ISBN 978-0-226-92414-4. £32.50 (hardback).
Ole Peter Grell
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The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 47 / Issue 3 / September 2014

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24 July 2014, pp. 573-574

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Robert Fox (ed.), Thomas Harriot and His World: Mathematics, Exploration and Natural Philosophy in Early Modern England. Farnham: Ashgate, 2012. Pp. xviii+255. ISBN 978-0-7546-6960.9. £65.00 (hardback).
Peter Rowlands
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The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 47 / Issue 3 / September 2014

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24 July 2014, pp. 569-570

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Silvan S. Schweber, Nuclear Forces: The Making of the Physicist Hans Bethe. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2012. Pp. viii+579. ISBN 978-0-674-06587-1. £25.95 (hardback).
Jaume Navarro
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The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 47 / Issue 3 / September 2014

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24 July 2014, pp. 579-580

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W. Patrick McCray, The Visioneers: How a Group of Elite Scientists Pursued Space Colonies, Nanotechnologies, and a Limitless Future. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2013. Pp. xii+351. ISBN 978-0-691-13983-8. £19.95 (hardback).
Peder Roberts
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The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 47 / Issue 3 / September 2014

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24 July 2014, pp. 580-581

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Deborah R. Coen, The Earthquake Observers: Disaster Science from Lisbon to Richter. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2013. Pp. viii+348. ISBN 978-0-226-11181-0. £22.50 (hardback).
Lorena B. Valderrama
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The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 47 / Issue 3 / September 2014

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24 July 2014, pp. 576-577

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Sean Cocco, Watching Vesuvius: A History of Science and Culture in Early Modern Italy. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2013. Pp. xi+332. ISBN 978-0-226-92371-0. £29.00 (hardback).
Antonio Clericuzio
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24 July 2014, pp. 572-573

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Bernard Lightman, Gordon McOuat and Larry Stewart (eds.), The Circulation of Knowledge between Britain, India and China: The Early-Modern World to the Twentieth Century. Leiden: Brill, 2013. pp. xxi+339. ISBN: 978-90-04-24441-2. $146.00 (hardback).
James Poskett
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The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 47 / Issue 3 / September 2014

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24 July 2014, pp. 567-569

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Joseph Agassi, The Very Idea of Modern Science: Francis Bacon and Robert Boyle. Heidelberg, New York and London: Springer, 2013. Pp. xvii+315. ISBN 978-94-007-5350-1. £90.00 (hardback).
Sheldon Richmond
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24 July 2014, pp. 570-572

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3 - Order for a Disordered World
Tracy Teslow, University of Cincinnati
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1 - Race, Anthropology, and the American Public
Tracy Teslow, University of Cincinnati
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Tracy Teslow, University of Cincinnati
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2 - Franz Boas and Race
Tracy Teslow, University of Cincinnati
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Tracy Teslow, University of Cincinnati
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Mechanical experiments as moral exercise in the education of George III

James O'Brien, The Scientific Sherlock Holmes: Cracking the Case with Science and Forensics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. xx+175. ISBN 978-0-19979496-6. £18.99 (hardback).

Heiner Fangerau, Rethy Chhem, Irmgard Müller and Shih-Chang Wang (eds.), Medical Imaging and Philosophy: Challenges, Reflections and Actions. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2012. Pp. 190. ISBN 978-3-515-10046-5. €38.00 (paperback).

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Sanja Perovic, The Calendar in Revolutionary France: Perceptions of Time in Literature, Culture, Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. xiv+276. ISBN 978-1-107-02595-0. £55.00 (hardback).

Daniel Stolzenberg, Egyptian Oedipus: Athanasius Kircher and the Secrets of Antiquity. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2013. Pp. xi+307. ISBN 978-0-226-92414-4. £32.50 (hardback).

Robert Fox (ed.), Thomas Harriot and His World: Mathematics, Exploration and Natural Philosophy in Early Modern England. Farnham: Ashgate, 2012. Pp. xviii+255. ISBN 978-0-7546-6960.9. £65.00 (hardback).

Silvan S. Schweber, Nuclear Forces: The Making of the Physicist Hans Bethe. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2012. Pp. viii+579. ISBN 978-0-674-06587-1. £25.95 (hardback).

W. Patrick McCray, The Visioneers: How a Group of Elite Scientists Pursued Space Colonies, Nanotechnologies, and a Limitless Future. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2013. Pp. xii+351. ISBN 978-0-691-13983-8. £19.95 (hardback).

Deborah R. Coen, The Earthquake Observers: Disaster Science from Lisbon to Richter. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2013. Pp. viii+348. ISBN 978-0-226-11181-0. £22.50 (hardback).

BJH volume 47 issue 3 Cover and Front matter

Sean Cocco, Watching Vesuvius: A History of Science and Culture in Early Modern Italy. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2013. Pp. xi+332. ISBN 978-0-226-92371-0. £29.00 (hardback).

BJH volume 47 issue 3 Cover and Back matter

Bernard Lightman, Gordon McOuat and Larry Stewart (eds.), The Circulation of Knowledge between Britain, India and China: The Early-Modern World to the Twentieth Century. Leiden: Brill, 2013. pp. xxi+339. ISBN: 978-90-04-24441-2. $146.00 (hardback).

Joseph Agassi, The Very Idea of Modern Science: Francis Bacon and Robert Boyle. Heidelberg, New York and London: Springer, 2013. Pp. xvii+315. ISBN 978-94-007-5350-1. £90.00 (hardback).

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