Author: John Towill Rutt
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Category : Chemists
Languages : en
Pages : 450
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Life and Correspondence of Joseph Priestley ...
Author: John Towill Rutt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chemists
Languages : en
Pages : 450
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Publisher:
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Category : Chemists
Languages : en
Pages : 450
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A Scientific Autobiography of Joseph Priestley, 1733-1804
Author: Joseph Priestley
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Category : Chemistry
Languages : en
Pages : 442
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Category : Chemistry
Languages : en
Pages : 442
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Joseph Priestley
Author: Isabel Rivers
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191526894
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages :
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Joseph Priestley was one of the most remarkable thinkers of the eighteenth century. Best known today as the scientist who discovered oxygen, he also made major contributions in the fields of education, politics, philosophy, and theology. This collection of essays by a team of experts covers the full range of Priestley's work and provides a new and up to date account of all his activities, together with a summary of his life and an account of his last years in America. The book will re-establish him as a major intellectual figure in Britain and America in the second half of the eighteenth century.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191526894
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages :
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Joseph Priestley was one of the most remarkable thinkers of the eighteenth century. Best known today as the scientist who discovered oxygen, he also made major contributions in the fields of education, politics, philosophy, and theology. This collection of essays by a team of experts covers the full range of Priestley's work and provides a new and up to date account of all his activities, together with a summary of his life and an account of his last years in America. The book will re-establish him as a major intellectual figure in Britain and America in the second half of the eighteenth century.
The Enlightened Joseph Priestley
Author: Robert E. Schofield
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271075570
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 287
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: 0271075570
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 287
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.
Theological and Miscellaneous Works of Joseph Priestley
Author: Joseph Priestley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781855068124
Category : Philosophy, British
Languages : en
Pages :
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ISBN: 9781855068124
Category : Philosophy, British
Languages : en
Pages :
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Life and Correspondence of Joseph Priestley
Author: John Towill Rutt
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Languages : en
Pages :
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Languages : en
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Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary & Philosophical Society
Author: Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 504
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 504
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The Theological and Miscellaneous Works of Joseph Priestley
Author: Joseph Priestley
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Category : Theology
Languages : en
Pages : 452
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Category : Theology
Languages : en
Pages : 452
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The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science
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Category : Conspiracy
Languages : en
Pages : 1188
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Category : Conspiracy
Languages : en
Pages : 1188
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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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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1020
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1020
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