Author: Joseph PriestleyPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
The History and Present State of Discoveries Relating to Vision, Light, and Colours, by Joseph Priestley
The History and Present State of Discoveries Relating to Vision, Light, and Colours
Author: Joseph PriestleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 890
Book Description
Color and Meaning
Author: John GagePublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520226111
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
"John Gage's Color and Meaning is full of ideas. . .He is one of the best writers on art now alive."--A. S. Byatt, Booker Prize winner
The Theological and Miscellaneous Works of Joseph Priestley
Author: Joseph PriestleyPublisher:
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Category : Theology
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
“The” History and Present State of Discoveries Relating to Vision, Light, and Colours
Author: Joseph PriestleyJoseph Priestley, Radical Thinker
Author: Chemical Heritage FoundationPublisher: Chemical Heritage Foundation
ISBN: 9780941901383
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
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.
History and Present State of Discoveries Relating to Vision, Light, and Colours
Author: Joseph PriestleyPublisher: Ayer Company Pub
ISBN: 9780405138973
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages :
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Joseph Priestley
Author: Isabel RiversPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191526894
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
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 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.
The History of Color
Author: Neil ParkinsonPublisher: Frances Lincoln
ISBN: 0711289662
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
This comprehensive, beautiful book delves deep into the complex but fascinating story of our relationship with colour throughout human history. Color is fundamental to our experience and understanding of the world. It crosses continents and cultures, disciplines and decades. It is used to convey information and knowledge, to evoke mood, and to inspire emotion. This book explores the history of our understanding of color, from the ancient world to the present, from Aristotle to Albers. Interspersed in the historical story are numerous thematic essays that look at how color has been used across a wide range of disciplines and fields: in food, music, language and many others. The illustrations are drawn from the Royal College of Art’s renowned Colour Reference Library which spans six centuries of works and nearly 2,000 titles, from a Gothic manuscript on the composition of the rainbow to hand-painted Enlightenment works on color theory and vibrant 20th-century color charts, including many fascinating examples not seen in other books. Delving far and wide in this fascinating and varied subject, this book will help readers find new layers of meaning and complexity in their everyday experiences and teach them to look closer at our colorful lives.