Author: Robert E. Schofield
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271032464
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
In The Enlightened Joseph Priestley Robert Schofield completes his two-volume biography of one of the great figures of the English Enlightenment. The first volume, published in 1997, covered the first forty years of Joseph Priestley’s life in England. In this second volume, Schofield surveys the mature years of Priestley, including the achievements that were to make him famous—the discovery of oxygen, the defenses of Unitarianism, and the political liberalism that characterized his later life. He also recounts Priestley’s flight to Pennsylvania in 1794 and the final years of his life spent along the Susquehanna in Northumberland. Together, the two volumes will stand as the standard biography of Priestley for years to come. Joseph Priestley (1733–1804), a contemporary and friend of Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, exceeded even these polymaths in the breadth of his curiosity and learning. Yet Priestley is often portrayed in negative terms, as a restless intellect, incapable of confining himself to any single task, without force or originality, and marked by hasty and superficial thought. In The Enlightened Joseph Priestley, he emerges as a man who was more than a lucky empiricist in science, more than a naive political liberal, more than an exhaustive compiler of superficial evidence in militant support of Unitarianism. In fact, he was learned in an extraordinary variety of subjects, from grammar, education, aesthetics, metaphysics, politics, and theology to natural philosophy. Priestley was, in fact, a man of the Enlightenment.
The Enlightened Joseph Priestley
Author: Robert E. Schofield
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271032464
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
In The Enlightened Joseph Priestley Robert Schofield completes his two-volume biography of one of the great figures of the English Enlightenment. The first volume, published in 1997, covered the first forty years of Joseph Priestley’s life in England. In this second volume, Schofield surveys the mature years of Priestley, including the achievements that were to make him famous—the discovery of oxygen, the defenses of Unitarianism, and the political liberalism that characterized his later life. He also recounts Priestley’s flight to Pennsylvania in 1794 and the final years of his life spent along the Susquehanna in Northumberland. Together, the two volumes will stand as the standard biography of Priestley for years to come. Joseph Priestley (1733–1804), a contemporary and friend of Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, exceeded even these polymaths in the breadth of his curiosity and learning. Yet Priestley is often portrayed in negative terms, as a restless intellect, incapable of confining himself to any single task, without force or originality, and marked by hasty and superficial thought. In The Enlightened Joseph Priestley, he emerges as a man who was more than a lucky empiricist in science, more than a naive political liberal, more than an exhaustive compiler of superficial evidence in militant support of Unitarianism. In fact, he was learned in an extraordinary variety of subjects, from grammar, education, aesthetics, metaphysics, politics, and theology to natural philosophy. Priestley was, in fact, a man of the Enlightenment.
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271032464
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
In The Enlightened Joseph Priestley Robert Schofield completes his two-volume biography of one of the great figures of the English Enlightenment. The first volume, published in 1997, covered the first forty years of Joseph Priestley’s life in England. In this second volume, Schofield surveys the mature years of Priestley, including the achievements that were to make him famous—the discovery of oxygen, the defenses of Unitarianism, and the political liberalism that characterized his later life. He also recounts Priestley’s flight to Pennsylvania in 1794 and the final years of his life spent along the Susquehanna in Northumberland. Together, the two volumes will stand as the standard biography of Priestley for years to come. Joseph Priestley (1733–1804), a contemporary and friend of Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, exceeded even these polymaths in the breadth of his curiosity and learning. Yet Priestley is often portrayed in negative terms, as a restless intellect, incapable of confining himself to any single task, without force or originality, and marked by hasty and superficial thought. In The Enlightened Joseph Priestley, he emerges as a man who was more than a lucky empiricist in science, more than a naive political liberal, more than an exhaustive compiler of superficial evidence in militant support of Unitarianism. In fact, he was learned in an extraordinary variety of subjects, from grammar, education, aesthetics, metaphysics, politics, and theology to natural philosophy. Priestley was, in fact, a man of the Enlightenment.
An History of Early Opinions Concerning Jesus Christ
Author: Joseph Priestley
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Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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Life and correspondence of Joseph Priestley
Author: John Towill Rutt
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Category : Chemists
Languages : en
Pages : 584
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Category : Chemists
Languages : en
Pages : 584
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The Theological and Miscellaneous Works of Joseph Priestley ... Edited with Notes by J. T. Rutt
Author: Joseph Priestley
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Languages : en
Pages : 1020
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Languages : en
Pages : 1020
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Remarks on the Monthly Review of the Letters to Dr. Horsley
Author: Joseph Priestley
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Languages : en
Pages : 38
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Languages : en
Pages : 38
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A Course of Lectures on the Principal Subjects in Pneumatology, Ethics, and Divinity
Author: Philip Doddridge
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Category : Theology, Doctrinal
Languages : en
Pages : 460
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Category : Theology, Doctrinal
Languages : en
Pages : 460
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Defences of Unitarianism for the years 1788 and 1789. Containing letters to Dr. Horsley, to the Rev. Mr. Barnard, the Rev. Dr. Knowles, and the Rev. Mr. Hawkins
Author: Joseph Priestley
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Category : Unitarianism
Languages : en
Pages : 476
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Category : Unitarianism
Languages : en
Pages : 476
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A catalogue of ... books, formerly the property of ... William Harris [and others. Bookseller's catal.].
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Languages : en
Pages : 328
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Pages : 328
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Letters to a Philosophical Unbeliever ...
Author: Joseph Priestley
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Category : God
Languages : en
Pages : 602
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Category : God
Languages : en
Pages : 602
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Defences of Unitarianism for the Year 1786
Author: Joseph Priestley
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Category : Unitarianism
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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Category : Unitarianism
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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