Author: Joseph PriestleyPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
The Use of Christianity, Especially in Difficult Times; a Sermon, Delivered at the Gravel Pit Meeting in Hackney ... Being the Author's Farewell Discourse to His Congregation
Author: Joseph PriestleyThe Use of Christianity, Especially in Difficult Times; a Sermon, Delivered at the Gravel Pit Meeting in Hackney, March 30, 1794, Etc
Author: Joseph PriestleyThe Enlightened Joseph Priestley
Author: Robert E. SchofieldPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271046244
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 480
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 thedefinitive study of the making of Joseph Priestley.
The Theological and Miscellaneous Works of Joseph Priestley
Author: Joseph PriestleyPublisher:
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Category : Theology
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
The Theological and Miscellaneous Works. Ed. with Notes by John Towill Rutt
Author: Joseph PriestleyThe Theological and Miscellaneous Works of Joseph Priestley ... Edited with Notes by J. T. Rutt
Author: Joseph PriestleyMemoirs of Dr. Joseph Priestley
Author: Joseph PriestleyPublisher:
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Category : Chemistry
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
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Author: Joseph PriestleyPublisher:
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Category : Chemists
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Memoirs of Dr. Joseph Priestley, to the Year 1795
Author: Joseph PriestleyMemoirs of Dr. Joseph Priestley
Author: Joseph PriestleyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108014208
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Volume 2 of this 1807 work details the life and thought of eighteenth century British intellectual Joseph Priestley.