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Book The Enlightenment of Joseph Priestley

Download or read book The Enlightenment of Joseph Priestley written by Robert E. Schofield and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book The Enlightened Joseph Priestley

Download or read book The Enlightened Joseph Priestley written by Robert E. Schofield and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-10-29 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book A Letter to the author of  Observations on the conduct of the Protestant Dissenters

Download or read book A Letter to the author of Observations on the conduct of the Protestant Dissenters written by LETTER. and published by . This book was released on 1790 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Course of Lectures on     pneumatology  ethics  and divinity  with references to     authors on each subject  Edited by S  Clark

Download or read book A Course of Lectures on pneumatology ethics and divinity with references to authors on each subject Edited by S Clark written by Philip Doddridge and published by . This book was released on 1822 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Bibliography of Eighteenth Century Legal Literature

Download or read book A Bibliography of Eighteenth Century Legal Literature written by J. N. Adams and published by Avero Publications. This book was released on 1982 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book English Dissent

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Book Catalogue of the New York State Library   1861  General Library  First Supplement

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Book Catalogue of the New York State Library  1861

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Book The Theological and Miscellaneous Works of Joseph Priestley

Download or read book The Theological and Miscellaneous Works of Joseph Priestley written by Joseph Priestley and published by . This book was released on 1771 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Theological and Miscellaneous Works  Ed  with Notes by John Towill Rutt

Download or read book The Theological and Miscellaneous Works Ed with Notes by John Towill Rutt written by Joseph Priestley and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book General catalogue of printed books

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Book Some Political and Social Ideas of English Dissent 1763   1800

Download or read book Some Political and Social Ideas of English Dissent 1763 1800 written by Anthony Lincoln and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-21 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1938, this book covers various aspects of the Dissenter movement between 1763 and 1800.

Book Alphabetical Register of All the Authors Actually Living in Great Britain  Ireland and in the United Provinces of North America

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Book The Theological and Miscellaneous Works of Joseph Priestley     Edited with Notes by J  T  Rutt

Download or read book The Theological and Miscellaneous Works of Joseph Priestley Edited with Notes by J T Rutt written by Joseph Priestley and published by . This book was released on 1771 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: