Public Understanding of Science: A History of Communicating Scientific Ideas
(2006)
Book
Knight, D. (2006). Public Understanding of Science: A History of Communicating Scientific Ideas. Routledge
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Science and Spirituality: the Volatile Connection * (2004)
Book
Knight, D. (2004). Science and Spirituality: the Volatile Connection *. RoutledgeThe relationship of science and religion in the long nineteenth century (1789-1914) is very complex. Natural theology remained an effective way of popularising science, and even the agnostics who by the 1870s were very prominent used Biblical metapho... Read More about Science and Spirituality: the Volatile Connection *.
Exalting Understanding Without Depressing Imagination: Depicting Chemical Process (2003)
Journal Article
Knight, D. (2003). Exalting Understanding Without Depressing Imagination: Depicting Chemical Process. Hyle (Karlsruhe. Print), 9(2), 171-189Alchemists’ illustrations indicated through symbols the processes being attempted; but with Lavoisier’s Elements (1789), the place of imagination and symbolic language in chemistry was much reduced. He sought to make chemistry akin to algebra and its... Read More about Exalting Understanding Without Depressing Imagination: Depicting Chemical Process.
Scientists and their publics (2002)
Book Chapter
Knight, D. (2002). Scientists and their publics. In M. Nye (Ed.), Cambridge history of science (72-90). Cambridge University PressThis is concerned with the reception of science by those outside the scientific community, looking at lectures, exhibitions, popular writings.