David M Knight

David M Knight

David M. Knight (30th November 1936- ) is Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science at Durham University. The son of the dean of Exeter Cathedral, he read chemistry at Keble College, Oxford and, after serving in the military, read a DPhil in the history of Victorian chemistry under the supervision of Alistair Cameron Crombie, Oxford University's Professor of the History of Science. After Oxford he was appointed as Durham's lecturer in the history of science in the Department of Philosophy and has remained there for the duration of his career. He has served on on the editorial boards of Ambix, Archives of Natural, History Annals of Science, and the British Journal for the History of Science and has edited history of science book series for Cambridge University Press, Routledge and Ashgate Publishers.

Although he was trained as a historian of ideas, Knight has 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 a wide number of topics, including the history of chemisty, the history of natural history, science and religion, and the public understanding of science. He has received numerous awards during the duration of his career, including Templeton Award for his work on nineteenth century natural theology and the American Chemical Society's prestigious Edelstein Award for his research in the history of chemistry.

Knight and his wife, Sarah, have six children. Two of his recent doctoral students include Momme von Sydow and Matthew D. Eddy.

Single Authored 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).

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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