David M. Knight

David M. Knight ( born November 30, 1936) is Professor of History of Science and Philosophy of Science at the University of Durham.

Life

The son of the Dean of Exeter studied chemistry at Keble College, Oxford and then history of chemistry in Alistair Cameron Crombie. He later became a professor at the University of Durham, where he teaches history of science at the Institute of Philosophy.

Although Knight was strongly influenced by the history of ideas, it has its own approach developed methods of social history, biographical history and philosophical reflection involves. He has written books on the history of science many topics, so the history of chemistry, natural history, the romantic philosophy of nature and the relationship of science and religion.

Knight was president of the British Society for the History of Science, and has throughout his career received a variety of awards, including the prestigious Gem Award from the American Chemical Society and the Templeton Award for his historical analyzes of the turbulent relationship between religion and science. He worked as an editor at Ambix, the Archives of Natural, History Annals of Science, and the British Journal for the History of Science and has published a number of scientific historical book series for Cambridge University Press, Routledge and Ashgate Publishers.

Knight and his wife, Sarah, have six children.

Monographs

Own Books Atoms and Elements (1967 ), The Nature of Science ( 1976), Ordering the World ( 1981), The Age of Science ( 1986), Natural Science Books in English, 1600-1900 (1989 ), Humphry Davy: Science and Power ( 1992), Science in the Romantic Era (1998), Science and Spirituality ( 2003), Public Understanding of Science ( 2006).

Publisher works ( with MD Eddy ) Science and Beliefs; from Natural Philosophy to Natural Science (2005 ), ( with MD Eddy ), William Paley 's Natural Theology: or, Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity (2006).