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Author: Alison Duncan Hirsch Publisher: Stackpole Books ISBN: 9780811726290 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 52
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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: Alison Duncan Hirsch Publisher: Stackpole Books ISBN: 9780811726290 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 52
Book Description
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: Robert E. Schofield Publisher: Penn State Press ISBN: 0271075570 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 287
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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 ISBN: 9781594488528 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 280
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Bestselling author Johnson recounts the story of Joseph Priestley--scientist and theologian, protege of Benjamin Franklin--an 18th-century radical thinker who played pivotal roles in the invention of ecosystem science, the founding of the Unitarian Church, and the intellectual development of the U.S.
Author: Chemical Heritage Foundation Publisher: Chemical Heritage Foundation ISBN: 9780941901383 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 76
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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 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.
Author: Alison Duncan Hirsch
Author: Alison Duncan Hirsch
Author: Joseph Priestley
Author: Robert E. Schofield
Author: J. D. Bowers
Author: John Corry
Author: Steven Johnson
Author: Chemical Heritage Foundation
Author: Arthur P. Miller, Jr.
Author: John Towill Rutt
Author: Isabel Rivers