Author: Joseph PriestleyPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 26
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Proposals for printing by subscription, The history and present state of discoveries relating to vision, light, and colours
Author: Joseph PriestleyProposals for Printing by Subscription, The History and Present State of Discoveries Relating to Vision, Light, and Colours. By Joseph Priestley
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 History and Present State of Discoveries Relating to Vision, Light and Colours Part 1
Author: Joseph PriestleyPublisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN: 9781497861909
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1772 Edition.
The History and Present State of Discoveries Relating to Vision, Light and Colours
Author: Joseph PriestleyThe Eighteenth Century
Author: Cavendish
Author: Christa JungnickelPublisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 0871692201
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 463
Book Description
"The Cavendishes flourished during the high tide of British aristocracy following the revolution of 1688-89, and the case can be made that this aristocracy knew its finest hour when Henry Cavendish gently laid his delicate weights in the pan of his incomparable precision balance. For this it took two generations and two kinds of invention, one in social forms and the other in scientific technique. This biography tells how it came to pass."--Book jacket
A Catalogue of English Books Printed Before 1801 Held by the University Library at Göttingen: v. 1-4. Books printed between 1701 and 1800
Author: Bernhard FabianPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Early printed books
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
The English Cyclopaedia. (Geography. - Natural History. - Biography. - Arts and Sciences) ...
Author: EncyclopaediasCatalogues of Sale
Author: Sotheby & Co. (London, England)Publisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 110
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