Author: Joseph Priestley
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Category : Carbon dioxide
Languages : en
Pages : 410
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Directions for Impregnating Water with Fixed Air
Author: Joseph Priestley
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Category : Carbon dioxide
Languages : en
Pages : 410
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Category : Carbon dioxide
Languages : en
Pages : 410
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Directions for impregnating water with fixed air; in order to communicate to it the peculiar spirit and virtues of Pyrmont water
Author: Joseph Priestley
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Languages : en
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The Enlightenment of Joseph Priestley
Author: Robert E. Schofield
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271040831
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 321
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Joseph Priestley (1733&–1804) is one of the major figures of the English Enlightenment. A contemporary and friend of Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, he exceeded even these polymaths in the breadth of his curiosity and learning. Yet no one has attempted an all-inclusive biography of Priestley, probably because he was simply too many persons for anyone easily to comprehend in a single study. Robert Schofield has devoted a lifetime of scholarship to this task. The result is a magisterial book, covering the life and works of Priestley during the critical first forty years of his life. Although Priestley is best known as a chemist, this book is considerably more than a study in the history of science. As any good biographer must, Schofield has thoroughly studied the many activities in which Priestley was engaged. Among them are theology, electricity, chemistry, politics, English grammar, rhetoric, and educational philosophy. Schofield situates Priestley, the provincial dissenter, within the social, political, and intellectual contexts of his day and examines all the works Priestley wrote and published during this period. Schofield singles out the first forty years of Priestley's life because these were the years of preparation and trial during which Priestley qualified for the achievements that were to make him famous. The discovery of oxygen, the defenses of Unitarianism, and the political liberalism that characterize the mature Priestley&—all are foreshadowed in the young Priestley. A brief epilogue looks ahead to the next thirty years when Priestley was forced out of England and settled in Pennsylvania, the subject of Schofield's next book. But this volume stands alone as the definitive study of the making of Joseph Priestley.
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271040831
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Joseph Priestley (1733&–1804) is one of the major figures of the English Enlightenment. A contemporary and friend of Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, he exceeded even these polymaths in the breadth of his curiosity and learning. Yet no one has attempted an all-inclusive biography of Priestley, probably because he was simply too many persons for anyone easily to comprehend in a single study. Robert Schofield has devoted a lifetime of scholarship to this task. The result is a magisterial book, covering the life and works of Priestley during the critical first forty years of his life. Although Priestley is best known as a chemist, this book is considerably more than a study in the history of science. As any good biographer must, Schofield has thoroughly studied the many activities in which Priestley was engaged. Among them are theology, electricity, chemistry, politics, English grammar, rhetoric, and educational philosophy. Schofield situates Priestley, the provincial dissenter, within the social, political, and intellectual contexts of his day and examines all the works Priestley wrote and published during this period. Schofield singles out the first forty years of Priestley's life because these were the years of preparation and trial during which Priestley qualified for the achievements that were to make him famous. The discovery of oxygen, the defenses of Unitarianism, and the political liberalism that characterize the mature Priestley&—all are foreshadowed in the young Priestley. A brief epilogue looks ahead to the next thirty years when Priestley was forced out of England and settled in Pennsylvania, the subject of Schofield's next book. But this volume stands alone as the definitive study of the making of Joseph Priestley.
The Theological and Miscellaneous Works of Joseph Priestley
Author: Joseph Priestley
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Category : Theology
Languages : en
Pages : 494
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Category : Theology
Languages : en
Pages : 494
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Boffinology
Author: Justin Pollard
Publisher: John Murray
ISBN: 1848544510
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 309
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The history of science is often seen as a story of advancement but nothing could be further from the truth. Science, it is true, has progressed, but rarely in the direction intended and seldom for the reasons given. This has a lot to do with the people responsible. From the strange to the eccentric, meet Thales, credited as 'the father of science', whose only real claim to fame is that he often fell into ditches, discover how Archimedes never said Eureka and hated baths anyway and how the most lucrative ancient Greek invention was not democracy but the slot machine. Justin Pollard also fills us in on Issac Newton, who thought gravity was created by the Holy Spirit, how eleven people claimed to have invented the steam engine and why the first website was twelve foot across and made of wood.
Publisher: John Murray
ISBN: 1848544510
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 309
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The history of science is often seen as a story of advancement but nothing could be further from the truth. Science, it is true, has progressed, but rarely in the direction intended and seldom for the reasons given. This has a lot to do with the people responsible. From the strange to the eccentric, meet Thales, credited as 'the father of science', whose only real claim to fame is that he often fell into ditches, discover how Archimedes never said Eureka and hated baths anyway and how the most lucrative ancient Greek invention was not democracy but the slot machine. Justin Pollard also fills us in on Issac Newton, who thought gravity was created by the Holy Spirit, how eleven people claimed to have invented the steam engine and why the first website was twelve foot across and made of wood.
An Account of the Nature and Medicinal Virtues of the Principal Mineral Waters of Great Britain and Ireland ...
Author: John Elliot
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Languages : en
Pages : 248
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Languages : en
Pages : 248
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Science as Public Culture
Author: Jan Golinski
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521659529
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 362
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Examines the development of chemistry in Britain 1760-1820 and relates it to civic life.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521659529
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Examines the development of chemistry in Britain 1760-1820 and relates it to civic life.
The Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Poets, Philosophers, Statesmen, Divines, Painters, Architects, Physicians, and Lawyers, Since the Revival of Art
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Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 554
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Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 554
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The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature
Author: Tobias Smollett
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 560
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Each number includes a classified "Monthly catalogue."
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 560
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Each number includes a classified "Monthly catalogue."
The critical review, or annals of literature
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Languages : en
Pages : 508
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Languages : en
Pages : 508
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