Knight, Ideas In Chemistry

Abstract

This is no run-of-the-mill ( or run-of-the-laboratory) history of chemistry. As the title indicates, it is a history of "ideas in chemistry," and this approach allows David Knight, professor of history at the University of Durham, England, to range widely over intellectual history, including historiography. Knight is one of those historians who believes that a history, properly written, should be an interesting story, relatively true, going somewhere.