Joseph Priestley

Author : Joseph Priestley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Oxygen
ISBN : UCAL:B4256701

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The Discovery of Oxygen by Joseph Priestley Pdf

Author : Isabel Rivers,David L. Wykes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0199215308

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Joseph Priestley, Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian by Isabel Rivers,David L. Wykes Pdf

Joseph Priestley, the eighteenth-century scientist who discovered oxygen, was one of the most remarkable thinkers of his time. This collection of essays by a team of experts covers the full range of his work in the fields of education, politics, philosophy, and theology, and firmly re-establishes him as a major intellectual figure.

Author : Robert E. Schofield
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780271075570

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The Enlightened Joseph Priestley by Robert E. Schofield Pdf

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.

Author : Steven Johnson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008-12-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781440685316

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The Invention of Air by Steven Johnson Pdf

From the bestselling author of How We Got To Now, The Ghost Map and Farsighted, a new national bestseller: the “exhilarating”( Los Angeles Times) story of Joseph Priestley, “a founding father long forgotten”(Newsweek) and a brilliant man who embodied the relationship between science, religion, and politics for America's Founding Fathers. In The Invention of Air, national bestselling author Steven Johnson tells the fascinating story of Joseph Priestley—scientist and theologian, protégé of Benjamin Franklin, friend of Thomas Jefferson—an eighteenth-century radical thinker who played pivotal roles in the invention of ecosystem science, the discovery of oxygen, the uses of oxygen, scientific experimentation, the founding of the Unitarian Church, and the intellectual development of the United States. As he did so masterfully in The Ghost Map, Steven Johnson uses a dramatic historical story to explore themes that have long engaged him: innovative strategies, intellectual models, and the way new ideas emerge and spread, and the environments that foster these breakthroughs.

Author : Chemical Heritage Foundation
Publisher : Chemical Heritage Foundation
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0941901386

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Joseph Priestley, Radical Thinker by Chemical Heritage Foundation Pdf

Joseph Priestly, Radical Thinker offers a unique look into the achievements of this scientific giant, whose work helped provide the foundation for chemistry research. The book is the catalog that accompanies an exhibit of historical images and artifacts that commemorated the 200th anniversary of the death of Priestly and includes essays by historian Robert Anderson and Marjorie Gapp, curator of art and images at Chemical Heritage Foundation. Gapp and Mary Ellen Bowden, with Lisa Rosner, also examine the historical significance of the many objects and artifacts found in this fascinating collection.

Author : Isabel Rivers,David L. Wykes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2008-01-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780191526893

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Joseph Priestley by Isabel Rivers,David L. Wykes Pdf

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.

Author : Robert E. Schofield
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0271025107

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The Enlightenment of Joseph Priestley by Robert E. Schofield Pdf

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.

Author : Joseph Priestley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1806
Category : Chemistry
ISBN : BSB:BSB10065969

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Memoirs of Dr. Joseph Priestley, to the Year 1795 by Joseph Priestley Pdf

Author : Alison Duncan Hirsch
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0811726290

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Joseph Priestley House by Alison Duncan Hirsch Pdf

Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) was the founder of modern chemistry and discoverer of oxygen, a theologian, and political philosopher. He came to Pennsylvania in 1794 after suffering persecution in his homeland, England, for his dissenting religious beliefs and liberal political views. Northumberland became his home for the last 10 years of his life. His Federal-style house features a laboratory and period objects, and a visitor centre includes exhibits that focus on his varied accomplishments.

Author : Joseph Priestley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UBBS:UBBS-00096148

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Scientific Correspondence of Joseph Priestley by Joseph Priestley Pdf

Author : Joseph Priestley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1807
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10065970

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Memoirs of Dr. Joseph Priestley, to the Year 1795 by Joseph Priestley Pdf

Author : Joseph Priestley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1797
Category : Theology
ISBN : UCAL:B3418475

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The Theological and Miscellaneous Works of Joseph Priestley by Joseph Priestley Pdf

Author : Joseph Priestley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1817
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0027107092

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The Theological and Miscellaneous Works of Joseph Priestley ... Edited with Notes by J. T. Rutt by Joseph Priestley Pdf

Author : Kate A. Conley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1584153679

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Joseph Priestley and the Discovery of Oxygen by Kate A. Conley Pdf

Profiles the life of the man credited with the discovery of Earth's most abundant element, oxygen.

Author : J. D. Bowers
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780271045818

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Joseph Priestley and English Unitarianism in America by J. D. Bowers Pdf