At the centre of Henry Snow’s book stands Jeremy Bentham’s proposed prison-rotunda, the Panopticon.
Snow reminds us that the idea of a building designed round a central inspection tower “was a workplace before it was a prison”, the brainchild of the philosopher’s mechanically minded younger brother, Samuel. Fascinated by shipbuilding, Samuel undertook a high-level apprenticeship in the late 18th century that equipped him with “both a tradesman’s knowledge and bourgeois European science”.
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