10.26686/wgtn.12278576.v1 Catherine Abou-Nemeh Catherine Abou-Nemeh Review of The Natural and the Human: Science and the Shaping of Modernity 1739-1841 [by Stephen Gaukroger] Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington 2020 History of Science, Technology & Medicine Historical Studies History and Philosophy of Specific Fields European History (excl. British, Classical Greek and Roman) 2020-05-10 06:07:29 Journal contribution https://openaccess.wgtn.ac.nz/articles/journal_contribution/Review_of_The_Natural_and_the_Human_Science_and_the_Shaping_of_Modernity_1739-1841_by_Stephen_Gaukroger_/12278576 This compelling and erudite book examines the emergence of the human sciences in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and explores the rise of sensibility in studies of human nature and behavior. The Natural and the Human is the third installment of Stephen Gaukroger’s massive project that investigates the ways in which scientific values were consolidated into a dominant program of inquiry and shaped notions of modernity in the West from the thirteenth century onward. (The first two volumes, The Emergence of a Scientific Culture and The Collapse of Mechanism and the Rise of Sensibility, were published by Oxford University Press in 2006 and 2010, respectively.) <br>