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* Robert E. Schofield. (1997) [http://www.psupress.org/books/titles/0-271-01662-0.html ''The Enlightenment of Joseph Priestley: A Study of His Life and Work from 1733 to 1773'']. Pennsylvania State University Press. ISBN 978-0-271-01662-7. | [http://books.google.com/books?id=71_MHXumhYEC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Googl Books preview]. | * Robert E. Schofield. (1997) [http://www.psupress.org/books/titles/0-271-01662-0.html ''The Enlightenment of Joseph Priestley: A Study of His Life and Work from 1733 to 1773'']. Pennsylvania State University Press. ISBN 978-0-271-01662-7. | [http://books.google.com/books?id=71_MHXumhYEC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Googl Books preview]. | ||
** <font face="Gill Sans MT"><u>From Preface: "This work was begun some thirty years ago as a labor of love and intense interest, when I first discovered there was no definitive biography of Joseph Priestley, one of the most distinguished polymaths of eighteenth-century England. It soon became painfully clear just why this was the case: Priestley was simply too many persons for any one easily to comprehend them all into a single study. Yet, in the long run, thoroughly to understand Priestley and his age, it must sometime be necessary to join those varied manifestations of his life into a study that might begin to integrate and illuminate the extraordinary career of this exemplar of British Enlightenment. Properly done, the subject of middle-class, Dissenting, intellectual achievements in eighteenth-century England would also be illuminated, as had not previously been done."</font> * Robert E. Schofield. (2009) [http://www.psupress.org/books/titles/0-271-02459-3.html ''The Enlightened Joseph Priestley: A Study of His Life and Work from 1733 to 1804'']. Pennsylvania State University Press. ISBN 9780271024592.| [http://books.google.com/books?id=jnLLDliZbJQC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Google Books preview]. | ** <font face="Gill Sans MT"><u>From Preface</u>: "This work was begun some thirty years ago as a labor of love and intense interest, when I first discovered there was no definitive biography of Joseph Priestley, one of the most distinguished polymaths of eighteenth-century England. It soon became painfully clear just why this was the case: Priestley was simply too many persons for any one easily to comprehend them all into a single study. Yet, in the long run, thoroughly to understand Priestley and his age, it must sometime be necessary to join those varied manifestations of his life into a study that might begin to integrate and illuminate the extraordinary career of this exemplar of British Enlightenment. Properly done, the subject of middle-class, Dissenting, intellectual achievements in eighteenth-century England would also be illuminated, as had not previously been done."</font> * Robert E. Schofield. (2009) [http://www.psupress.org/books/titles/0-271-02459-3.html ''The Enlightened Joseph Priestley: A Study of His Life and Work from 1733 to 1804'']. Pennsylvania State University Press. ISBN 9780271024592.| [http://books.google.com/books?id=jnLLDliZbJQC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Google Books preview]. | ||
** <font face="Gill Sans MT">''Nunc dimittis!'' A project begun some forty years ago is now completed. And if it is not the definitive biography (whatever that might be) of Joseph Priestley that I had originally intended, it is, in at least one sense, a complete one. So far as I have been able to do so, I have consulted and described every published writing of Joseph Priestley and attempted to place every bit of it in its historical context. I suggest that this is unique...This is an intellectual biography, not a psychological personality study or a sociological history of middle-class Britain in the eighteenth century...Priestley was a man of the Enlightenment; he seems always to have maintained a decent reticence and did not display his emotions to public scrutiny. Only rarely, in correspondence or publications, did he express his feelings. Even his Memoirs dwell more on his friends, his benefactors, and his work than on himself. But intellectually is also how I see him. Priestley is important because of his ideas, and it is ideas that I chiefly describe and discuss.</font> | ** <font face="Gill Sans MT"><u>From Preface</u>:''Nunc dimittis!'' A project begun some forty years ago is now completed. And if it is not the definitive biography (whatever that might be) of Joseph Priestley that I had originally intended, it is, in at least one sense, a complete one. So far as I have been able to do so, I have consulted and described every published writing of Joseph Priestley and attempted to place every bit of it in its historical context. I suggest that this is unique...This is an intellectual biography, not a psychological personality study or a sociological history of middle-class Britain in the eighteenth century...Priestley was a man of the Enlightenment; he seems always to have maintained a decent reticence and did not display his emotions to public scrutiny. Only rarely, in correspondence or publications, did he express his feelings. Even his Memoirs dwell more on his friends, his benefactors, and his work than on himself. But intellectually is also how I see him. Priestley is important because of his ideas, and it is ideas that I chiefly describe and discuss.</font> | ||
* F.W. Gibbs. (1965) ''Joseph Priestley: Adventurer in Science and Champion of Truth''. | * F.W. Gibbs. (1965) ''Joseph Priestley: Adventurer in Science and Champion of Truth''. | ||
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Joseph Priestley (1733-1804), an English scientist who discovered the component gas of the atmosphere subsequently named oxygen by the French chemist, Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794), whose learning of Priestley experiments critically influenced the future course of Lavoisier's career as a chemist that led to a revolution in the principles of chemistry, the beginnings of modern chemistry—a new understanding of chemical science that contributed importantly in enabling the Englishman, John Dalton (1766-1844), to formulate a chemical atomic theory, the bedrock of modern chemistry.[1][Note 1][Note 2]
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Ref: Jackson J. (2005): Full biographies of Joseph Priestley and Antoine Laurent Lavoisier.
- Chapter titles: Prologue: God in the air. The cloth-dresser's son. The sums and receipts of parallel worlds. The gas in the beer. The prodigy. The goodness of air. The problem of burning. The sentimental journey. The mouse in the jar. The twelve days. The language of war. "King Mob". The world out of joint. The new world. Epilogue: the burning world.
- See review of Jackson's book in American Scientist: A Tale of Two Chemists by Seymour Mauskopf.
- Joe Jackson Homepage
- ↑
- Joseph Priestley site:britannica.com OR site:gov OR site:edu OR site:ac.uk OR site:edu.au
References
- ↑ Jackson J. (2005) A World on Fire: A Heretic, an Aristocrat, and the Race to Discover Oxygen. New York: Viking. ISBN 0670034347; Penguin USA About Book. ISBN 9780143038832. | Google Books preview.
Bibliography
- Robert E. Schofield. (1997) The Enlightenment of Joseph Priestley: A Study of His Life and Work from 1733 to 1773. Pennsylvania State University Press. ISBN 978-0-271-01662-7. | Googl Books preview.
- From Preface: "This work was begun some thirty years ago as a labor of love and intense interest, when I first discovered there was no definitive biography of Joseph Priestley, one of the most distinguished polymaths of eighteenth-century England. It soon became painfully clear just why this was the case: Priestley was simply too many persons for any one easily to comprehend them all into a single study. Yet, in the long run, thoroughly to understand Priestley and his age, it must sometime be necessary to join those varied manifestations of his life into a study that might begin to integrate and illuminate the extraordinary career of this exemplar of British Enlightenment. Properly done, the subject of middle-class, Dissenting, intellectual achievements in eighteenth-century England would also be illuminated, as had not previously been done." * Robert E. Schofield. (2009) The Enlightened Joseph Priestley: A Study of His Life and Work from 1733 to 1804. Pennsylvania State University Press. ISBN 9780271024592.| Google Books preview.
- From Preface:Nunc dimittis! A project begun some forty years ago is now completed. And if it is not the definitive biography (whatever that might be) of Joseph Priestley that I had originally intended, it is, in at least one sense, a complete one. So far as I have been able to do so, I have consulted and described every published writing of Joseph Priestley and attempted to place every bit of it in its historical context. I suggest that this is unique...This is an intellectual biography, not a psychological personality study or a sociological history of middle-class Britain in the eighteenth century...Priestley was a man of the Enlightenment; he seems always to have maintained a decent reticence and did not display his emotions to public scrutiny. Only rarely, in correspondence or publications, did he express his feelings. Even his Memoirs dwell more on his friends, his benefactors, and his work than on himself. But intellectually is also how I see him. Priestley is important because of his ideas, and it is ideas that I chiefly describe and discuss.
- F.W. Gibbs. (1965) Joseph Priestley: Adventurer in Science and Champion of Truth.