David Charles Lindberg (November 15, 1935 – January 6, 2015) was an American historianof science. His main focus was in the history ofmedieval andearly modern science, especiallyphysical science and therelationship between religion and science. Lindberg was the author or editor of many books and received numerous grants and awards. He also served as president of theHistory of Science Society and in 1999 was the recipient of itsSarton medal.^[1]

Lindberg was born on November 15, 1935, inMinneapolis, Minnesota.^[2] He would go on to obtain a degree in physics fromNorthwestern University and aDoctor of Philosophy inhistory and philosophy of science fromIndiana University Bloomington.

Lindberg was the Hilldale Professor Emeritus of History of Science and past director of the Institute for Research in the Humanities, at theUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison. Lindberg was the author or editor of more than a dozen books, received grants and awards from organizations that included theJohn Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, theNational Science Foundation, theNational Endowment for the Humanities, theInstitute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, theHistory of Science Society, theMedieval Academy of America, and the University of Wisconsin–Madison. WithRonald Numbers, he co-edited two anthologies on the relationship between religion and science. Also with Numbers, Lindberg was general editor of the eight-volume Cambridge History of Science and with Michael Shank editor of its volume on medieval science. He served as president of the History of Science Society and was awarded its highest prize for lifetime scholarly achievement: the Sarton medal.^[1]

• John Pecham and the Science of Optics: Perspectiva Communis (1970)ISBN 978-0-299-05730-5
• Theories of Vision from al-Kindi to Kepler (1976) ASIN B000OPS4RC; (1996)ISBN 978-0-226-48235-4
• Science in the Middle Ages (1978)ISBN 978-0-226-48233-0
• Studies in the History of Medieval Optics (1983)ISBN 978-0-86078-134-9
• Roger Bacon's Philosophy of Nature (1983)ISBN 978-0-19-858164-2; (1997)ISBN 978-1-890318-75-8
• The Genesis of Kepler's Theory of Light: Light Metaphysics from Plotinus to Kepler (1976) ASIN B00073BMM0
• God and Nature (editor, with Ronald Numbers) (1986)ISBN 978-0-520-05538-4
• Reappraisals of the Scientific Revolution (editor, with Robert S. Westman) (1990)ISBN 978-0-521-34804-1
• The Beginnings of Western Science, 600 B.C. to A.D. 1450 (1992)ISBN 978-0-226-48231-6
• Roger Bacon and the Origins of Perspectiva in the Middle Ages (1996)ISBN 978-0-19-823992-5
• When Science and Christianity Meet (editor, with Ronald Numbers) (2003)ISBN 978-0-226-48214-9

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• Beyond War and Peace: A Reappraisal of the Encounter between Christianity and Science
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