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Prof. James Arthur Bennett
Former Board Member (2007 - 2018)

Awards
  1. 2020 Sarton Medal, History of Science Society

  2. The PhysicsEstoire prize has awarded to Jim Bennett on 19 October 2018. The ceremony took place during the Joint 3rd International Conference on the History of Physics, organised under the auspices of the European Physical Society in Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain

Publications:

  1. J. Bennett, Navigation: a very short introduction, Oxford University Press (2017)

  2. J. Bennett, S. Talas, Cabinets of experimental philosophy in eighteenth-century Europe, Leiden, Brill (2013)

  3. J. Bennett, London's Leonardo: the life and work of Robert Hooke, Oxford University Press (2003)

  4. J. Bennett, Knowing and doing in the sixteenth century: What were instruments for? BJHS (36) 129-150 (2002)

  5. J. Bennett, S. Mandelbrote, The garden, the ark, the tower, the temple : biblical metaphors of knowledge in early modern Europe, Oxford (1998)

  6. J A Bennett; S. Johnston, The geometry of war, 1500-1750 : catalogue of the exhibition, Oxford Museum of the History of Science (1996)

  7. J. Bennett, D. Meli, Sphaera mundi : astronomy books in the Whipple Museum, 1478-1600 (1994)

  8. R. Anderson, J. Bennett, W. Ryan, Making instruments count : essays on historical scientific instruments presented to Gerard L'Estrange Turner (1993)

  9. J. Bennett, Empires of physics: a guide to the exhibition, Cambridge (1993)

  10. J. Bennett, Church, state, and astronomy in Ireland: 200 years of Armagh Observatory, the Queen's University of Belfast (1990)

  11. J. Bennett, The divided circle: a history of instruments for astronomy, navigation, and surveying, Oxford University Press (1987)

  12. J. Bennett, The mechanics’ philosophy and mechanical philosophy, History of Science (24) 1-28 (1986)

  13. J. Bennett, The mathematical science of Christopher Wren, Cambridge University Press (1982)

References

  1. Personal website

  2. Personal website

  3. P. M. Schuster, 3rd International Conference of History of Physics, e-EPS, 20 November 2018; Europhysics news (2018)

  4. History of Science Society Awards Sarton Medal to James Bennett

  5. History of Science Society (HSS) Sarton Medal 2020: James Bennett, HPS&ST Newsletter, July 2020, p. 6

Created: 24 February 2017
Updated: 10 December 2020

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