David M. Knight

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David Marcus Knight (30 November 1936 – 19 January 2018)^[1] was Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science at Durham University.

Life

The son of the

Although he was trained as a historian of ideas, Knight spent his career developing a unique approach to the history of science that draws from methods used in the history of the book, social history and biographical history. His interest in the cultural history of science led him to write a number of books that focused on a wide range of topics, including the history of chemistry, the history of natural history, science and religion, and the public understanding of science. He was President of the

• 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)
• Ideas in Chemistry (1992)
• Science in the Romantic Era (1998)
• Science and Spirituality (2003),[6]
• Public Understanding of Science (2006)
• Voyaging in Strange Seas: The Great Revolution in Science (2014)

Jointly edited books

• (with M D Eddy) Science and Beliefs; from Natural Philosophy to Natural Science (2005)
• (with M D Eddy) William Paley’s Natural Theology: or, Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity (2006)

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