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Joseph Priestley

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Gender Male
Death220 years ago
Date of birth March 24,1733
Zodiac sign Aries
Born Birstall
United Kingdom
Date of died February 6,1804
DiedNorthumberland
Pennsylvania
United States
Discovered Oxygen
Job Teacher
Chemist
Theologian
Philosopher
Librarian
Physicist
Education Daventry Academy
Warrington Academy
Batley Grammar School
Spouse Mary Wilkinson
Children Joseph Priestley Jr.
Sarah Priestley
William Priestley
Henry Priestley
Parents Mary Swift
Jonas Priestley
Awards Copley Medal
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Date of Upd.
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Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air
The History and Present State of Electricity
A History of the Corruptions of Christianity
Disquisitions relating to Matter and Spirit
Essay on the First Principles of Government
Lectures on History and General Policy
The Rudiments of English Grammar
The Doctrine of Philosophical Necessity Illustrated
Institutes of Natural and Revealed Religion
Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry, Delivered at the New College in Hackney
Essay on a Course of Liberal Education for Civil and Active Life
A general history of the Christian church
The discovery of oxygen, part 1
Priestley: Political Writings
A Description of a New Chart of History
A Course of Lectures on Oratory and Criticism
Memoirs of Dr. Joseph Priestley, to the year 1795
Directions for Impregnating Water with Fixed Air: In Order to Communicate to it the Peculiar Spirit and Virtues of Pyrmont Water, and Other Mineral Waters of a Similar Nature
A description of a Chart of biography
An History of Early Opinions Concerning Jesus Christ: Compiled from Original Writers; Proving that the Christian Church was at First Unitarian
A Free Discussion of the Doctrines of Materialism and Philosophical Necessity in Correspondence with Joseph Priestley, 1778
An appeal to the serious and candid professors of Christianity . .
A Scientific Autobiography of Joseph Priestley, 1733-1804: Selected Scientific Correspondence
Joseph Priestley
Experiments and Observations Relating to Various Branches of Natural Philosophy, with a Continuation of the Observations on Air
The History and Present State of Discoveries Relating to Vision, Light, and Colours
The doctrines of heathen philosophy, compared with those of revelation
A Familiar Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Perspective
Hartley's Theory of the Human Mind: On the Principle of the Association of Ideas; with Essays Relating to the Subject of it
Discourses Relating to the Evidences of Revealed Religion,: Delivered in the Church of the Universalists, at Philadelphia, 1796. : And Published at the Request of Many of the Hearers
A Letter to the Rev. Mr. John Palmer: In Defence of the Illustrations of Philosophical Necessity
Notes on All the Books of Scripture, for the Use of the Pulpit and Private Families;
A Familiar Introduction to the Study of Electricity: By Joseph Priestley, . . .
The rudiments of English grammar, adapted to the use of schools
An Essay on a Course of Liberal Education
Socrates and Jesus Compared
Considerations on the Doctrine of Phlogiston, and the Decomposition of Water
The Present State of Liberty in Great Britain and Her Colonies. By an Englishman
The Doctrine of Philosophical Necessity Illustrated (1777)
An Essay on a Course of Liberal Education for Civil and Active Life: . . . To which are Added, Remarks on a Code of Education, Proposed by Dr. Brown, in a Late Treatise, Intitled, Thoughts on Civil Liberty, &c. By Joseph Priestley . . .
Observations on Respiration, and the Use of the Blood
A Course of Lectures on the Theory of Language and Universal Grammar
The doctrine of phlogiston established, and that of the composition of water refuted
The Importance and Extent of Free Inquiry in Matters of Religion: a Sermon, Preached Before the Congregations of the Old and New Meeting of Protestant Dissenters at Birmingham. November 5, 1785. To which are Added, Reflections on the Present State of Free Inquiry in this Country; . . . By Joseph Priestley, . . .
Letters to the Jews: Inviting Them to an Amicable Discussion of the Evidences of Christianity
A Comparison of the Institutions of Moses with Those of the Hindoos and Other Ancient Nations: With Remarks on Mr. Dupuis's Origin of All Religions, the Law and Institutions of Moses Methodised, and an Address to the Jews on the Present State of the World and the Prophecies Relating to it
An address to Protestant dissenters of all denominations
An Account of a Society, for Encouraging the Industrious Poor: With a Table for Their Use. To which are Prefixed, Some Considerations on the State of the Poor in General
Letters to the inhabitants of Northumberland and its neighbourhood on subjects interesting to the author and to them
A General View of the Arguments for the Unity of God: And Against the Divinity and Pre-existence of Christ, from Reason, from the Scriptures, and from History
A Sermon on the Subject of the Slave Trade;: Delivered to a Society of Protestant Dissenters, at the New Meeting, in Birmingham; And Published at Thei
The Discovery of Oxygen
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Joseph Priestley FRS was an English chemist, natural philosopher, separatist theologian, grammarian, multi-subject educator, and liberal political theorist. He published over 150 works, and conducted experiments in several areas of science.

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