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  • Priestley Memorial Lecture: A Practical Perspective on Joseph Priestley as a Pneumatic Chemist

  • Maurice Crosland
  • Journal:
    The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 16 / Issue 3 / November 1983
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    05 January 2009, pp. 223-238
    Print publication:
    November 1983

  • Two major problems in understanding Joseph Priestley (1733–1804) are that he wrote so much and over such a wide area. The nineteenth-century edition of his collected works fills 25 volumes—and that leaves out the science! In discussing a man like Priestley, therefore, one cannot hope in a single lecture to do justice to the wide range of his interests or even to summarise adequately his many contributions to science. Fortunately much of the scientific work is fairly well known, for example his discovery of many new gases or ‘airs’, as he preferred to call them. It might be appropriate, therefore, to try to put Priestley's pneumatic chemistry in a wider context and in particular to relate it to his career. Priestley was not only an important man of science. He was also an outspoken theologian, a literary figure and a family man, and all of these roles (and several others, including his political role on behalf of Dissenters) will have to be taken into consideration when the definitive biography is written.

  • Letter to the Editor

  • N. W. Pirie
  • Journal:
    The British Journal for the History of Science / Volume 16 / Issue 3 / November 1983
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    05 January 2009, pp. 273-274
    Print publication:
    November 1983
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