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" Memoirs of Dr. Joseph Priestley. "
Joseph Priestley, Thomas Cooper.
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BL
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680563
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b502752
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Priestley, Joseph,1733-1804
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Memoirs of Dr. Joseph Priestley.\ Joseph Priestley, Thomas Cooper.
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Cambridge :: Cambridge University Press.
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Place of publication not identified :: publisher not identified,, 1807.
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Cambridge library collection. Physical Sciences.
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1 online resource (452 pages) :: digital, PDF file(s)
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9780511709494 (ebook)
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
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Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) was an eighteenth-century English polymath with accomplishments in the fields of science, pedagogy, philosophy, and theology. Among his more notable achievements were the discovery of oxygen and his work in establishing Unitarianism. Often a controversialist, Priestley's efforts to develop a 'rational' Christianity and support for the French Revolution eventually made him unwelcome in his native land. His 1807 Memoirs relate the story of his life until the time of his 1794 emigration to America and include other biographical materials written by his son. This second volume contains a lengthy discussion of Priestley's theological writings as well as four of his sermons. Priestley's memoirs are an important source for anyone interested in the state of epistemology, rationalism, and religious belief in the age of the Enlightenment, and in a man who, in the words of his son, 'gave unremitting exertions in the cause of truth'
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Priestley, Joseph,1733-1804.
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Chemists-- Great Britain, Biography.
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Cooper, Thomas,1759-1839
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