David M. Knight

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David Marcus Knight (born November 30, 1936 - January 19, 2018 ) was Professor of the History of Science and Philosophy of Science at the University of Durham .

Life

The son of the Deans of Exeter studied chemistry at Keble College, Oxford and then chemistry history with Alistair Cameron Crombie . He later became a professor at the University of Durham , where he taught history of science at the Department of Philosophy.

Even if Knight was strongly influenced by the history of ideas, he developed his own approach that incorporates methods from social history, biographical history and philosophical reflection. He has written books on many topics relating to the history of science, such as the history of chemistry, natural history, romantic natural philosophy and the relationship between science and religion.

Knight was President of the British Society for the History of Science and has received a number of awards during his career, including the prestigious Edelstein Award from the American Chemical Society and the Templeton Award for his historical analysis of the changeful relationships between religion and science. He has served as editor for Ambix, the Archives of Natural, History Annals of Science, and the British Journal for the History of Science and has edited a variety of science history book series for Cambridge University Press , Routledge and Ashgate Publishers .

Knight and his wife, Sarah, had 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), Voyaging in Strange Seas: The Great Revolution in Science (2014).

Edited 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).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Professor David Marcus Knight. In: The Times. Legacy.com, January 27, 2018, accessed January 27, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from June 12, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ http://www.dur.ac.uk/philosophy/staff/?id=515
  4. ^ DM Knight. Getting Science Across (Presidential address). In: British Journal of History of Science. 29, 1996, pp. 129-38.
  5. ↑ http://www.routledge.com/books/Science-and-Spirituality-isbn9780415257695
personal data
SURNAME Knight, David M.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Knight, David Marcus (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British historian of science
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1936
DATE OF DEATH 19th January 2018