Author: Joseph PriestleyPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
A Description of a Chart of Biography; with a catalogue of all the names inserted in it, and the dates annexed to them ... Second edition
Author: Joseph PriestleyA Description of a Chart of Biography
Author: Joseph PriestleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
A Description of a Chart of Biography
Author: Joseph PriestleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
A description of a Chart of biography. With a catalogue of all the names inserted in it, and the date annexed to them
Author: Joseph PriestleyA Description of a Chart of Biography; With a Catalogue of All the Names Inserted in It, and the Dates Annexed to Them. by Joseph Priestley,
Author: Joseph PriestleyPublisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions
ISBN: 9781379701736
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Rich in titles on English life and social history, this collection spans the world as it was known to eighteenth-century historians and explorers. Titles include a wealth of travel accounts and diaries, histories of nations from throughout the world, and maps and charts of a world that was still being discovered. Students of the War of American Independence will find fascinating accounts from the British side of conflict. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T032345 Warrington: printed by William Eyres, 1765. [4],8,27,84, [1]p., tables; 8°
A Description of a Chart of Biography, with a Catalogue of All the Names Inserted in it and the Dates Annexed to Them, by Joseph Priestley,... The 4th Edition...
Author: Joseph PriestleyA Description of a Chart of Biography; with a Catalogue of All the Names Inserted in It, and the Dates Annexed to Them
Author: Joseph PriestleyA description of a chart of biography; with a catalogue of all the names inserted in it, and the dates annexed to them ... A new edition, with improvements
Author: Joseph PriestleyThe Enlightened Joseph Priestley
Author: Robert E. SchofieldPublisher: 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 Enlightenment of Joseph Priestley
Author: Robert E. SchofieldPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271025100
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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.