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Priestley's Progress

Author : Mike Bullock
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 147662870X
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Priestley's Progress written by Mike Bullock and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-07-07 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first ever biography of Antarctic explorer Sir Raymond Priestley (1886-1974) covers his full (at times life-threatening) involvement with Sir Ernest Shackleton's 1907-1909 Nimrod Expedition and Robert Scott's 1910-1913 Terra Nova Expedition. Priestley's service with the British 46th Division during World War I won him the Military Cross for gallantry. After the war, he played a leading role in establishing the Scott Polar Research Institute at the University of Cambridge. He was later appointed vice-chancellor of the University of Melbourne and then of the University of Birmingham and also helped establish the University of the West Indies. He received a knighthood for his services to education. During retirement--a misnomer in his case--he went with the Duke of Edinburgh on the Royal Yacht Britannia as an Antarctic expert and joined the American Deep Freeze IV Expedition during his tenure directing the British Antarctic Survey. Despite the demands of his career, Priestley remained an involved family man throughout.

Joseph Priestley

Author : Isabel Rivers
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191526894
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Joseph Priestley written by Isabel Rivers and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-01-17 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph Priestley was one of the most remarkable thinkers of the eighteenth century. Best known today as the scientist who discovered oxygen, he also made major contributions in the fields of education, politics, philosophy, and theology. This collection of essays by a team of experts covers the full range of Priestley's work and provides a new and up to date account of all his activities, together with a summary of his life and an account of his last years in America. The book will re-establish him as a major intellectual figure in Britain and America in the second half of the eighteenth century.

Joseph Priestley and English Unitarianism in America

Author : J. D. Bowers
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271045817
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Joseph Priestley and English Unitarianism in America written by J. D. Bowers and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Enlightenment of Joseph Priestley

Author : Robert E. Schofield
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271040831
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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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.

The Languages of Psyche

Author : G. S. Rousseau
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520910435
Total Pages : 503 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book The Languages of Psyche written by G. S. Rousseau and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Languages of Psyche traces the dualism of mind and body during the "long eighteenth century," from the Restoration in England to the aftermath of the French Revolution. Ten outstanding scholars investigate the complex mind-body relationship in a variety of Enlightenment contexts—science, medicine, philosophy, literature, and everyday society. No other recent book provides such an in-depth, suggestive resource for philosophers, literary critics, intellectual and social historians, and all who are interested in Enlightenment studies. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1996. The Languages of Psyche traces the dualism of mind and body during the "long eighteenth century," from the Restoration in England to the aftermath of the French Revolution. Ten outstanding scholars investigate the complex mind-body relationship in

Motion Toward Perfection

Author : Albert Truman Schwartz
Publisher : Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
ISBN 13 : 9781558960107
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Motion Toward Perfection written by Albert Truman Schwartz and published by Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations. This book was released on 1990 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten authors follow Priestley's (1733-1804) evolution from Calvinism to Unitarianism.

Enlightenment and Religion

Author : Knud Haakonssen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521029872
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book Enlightenment and Religion written by Knud Haakonssen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-02 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-ranging collection of studies on Enlightenment and religion in eighteenth-century England.

The Love of God Holds Creation Together

Author : Ryan P. Hoselton
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498244270
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (982 download)

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Download or read book The Love of God Holds Creation Together written by Ryan P. Hoselton and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-02-26 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The English Baptist Andrew Fuller (1754-1815) is well-known today for his nuanced Evangelical answer to the "Modern Question" against hyper-Calvinism, founding and leading the Baptist Missionary Society, and his exemplary pastoral ministry. In his day, however, he was also esteemed as a formidable apologist for Christian orthodoxy, especially in the area of moral reasoning. Following in the footsteps of his theological mentor, Jonathan Edwards, Fuller labored to defend the moral goodness and salutary nature of Christian doctrine against the new moral philosophy of the Enlightenment. As optimism in the moral potential of human nature waxed, reliance on God for truth and virtue waned. Echoing a long tradition of classical theologians, Fuller wished to declare afresh that the love of God, as manifested in the gospel, furnished humankind's only hope for virtue, excellence, and happiness. In this concise study, Hoselton looks to recover the importance of ethical reasoning in Fuller's theology and ministry and reflect on its merit for today.

Lavoisier and the Chemistry of Life

Author : Frederic Lawrence Holmes
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299099848
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Lavoisier and the Chemistry of Life written by Frederic Lawrence Holmes and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on Lavoisier's daily laboratory records, unpublished notes, and successive drafts of articles, Holmes explores the interaction between this creative scientist's theories and practice, the experimental problems he encountered and his response to them, the apparently intuitive understanding that guided his choice of experiments, and the gradual refinement of his hypotheses. This thorough and comprehensive exposition of Lavoisier's scientific style forms the basis for general reflections on the nature of creative scientific imagination that will interest historians of science and biology, philosophers of science, cognitive psychologists, and all who are intrigued by the drama of pioneering scientific discovery.

Heterodoxy in Early Modern Science and Religion

Author : John Brooke
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191556343
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Heterodoxy in Early Modern Science and Religion written by John Brooke and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2005-12-01 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The separation of science and religion in modern secular culture can easily obscure the fact that in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe ideas about nature were intimately related to ideas about God. Readers of this book will find fresh and exciting accounts of a phenomenon common to both science and religion: deviation from orthodox belief. How is heterodoxy to be measured? How might the scientific heterodoxy of particular thinkers impinge on their religious views? Would heterodoxy in religion create a predisposition towards heterodoxy in science? Might there be a homology between heterodox views in both domains? Such major protagonists as Galileo and Newton are re-examined together with less familiar figures in order to bring out the extraordinary richness of scientific and religious thought in the pre-modern world.

The Enlightened Joseph Priestley

Author : Robert E. Schofield
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271032464
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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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.

Imagining Solar Energy

Author : Gregory Lynall
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350010987
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Imagining Solar Energy written by Gregory Lynall and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the 2022 ESSE Book Awards How has humanity sought to harness the power of the Sun, and what roles have literature, art and other cultural forms played in imagining, mythologizing and reflecting the possibilities of solar energy? What stories have been told about solar technologies, and how have these narratives shaped developments in science and culture? What can solar power's history tell us about its future, within a world adapting to climate crisis? Identifying the history of capturing solar radiance as a focal point between science and the imagination, Imagining Solar Energy argues that the literary, artistic and mythical resonances of solar power – from the Renaissance to the present day – have not only been inspired by, but have also cultivated and sustained its scientific and technological development. Ranging from Archimedes to Isaac Asimov, John Dee to Humphry Davy, Aphra Behn to J. G. Ballard, the book argues that solar energy translates into many different kinds of power (physical, political, intellectual and cultural), and establishes for the first time the importance of solar energy to many literary and scientific endeavours.

Discussing Chemistry and Steam

Author : Trevor Harvey Levere
Publisher : Oxford : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198515302
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (153 download)

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Download or read book Discussing Chemistry and Steam written by Trevor Harvey Levere and published by Oxford : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains an edition of the Minutes of the Coffee House Philosophical Society 1780-1787, as transcribed by William Nicholson, the secretary to the society. The 1780s were exciting years for science and for its applications, and experimental philosophy and industrial development wereclosely interwoven. This coffee house society provided a group of natural philosophers with the oppotunity to discuss the topics that most interested them. The minutes themselves, unique in their completeness, constitute a continuous record of the fortnightly meetings of a group of leading naturalphilosophers, instrument makers, physicians, and industrialist entrepreneurs. They are an important resource for historians of politics and society (including the industrial revolution), as well as for historians of science and technology.In addition to a fully edited edition of the Minute book, and brief biographies of all the members, the book includes essays by Jan Golinski on the members' discussion about phlogiston and other issues relating to the chemical revolution, and by Larry Stewart on the reforming, radical, andindustrial contexts of the networks to which the members belonged.One of the standard criticisms of English science in the late eighteenth century is its isolation from the rest of Europe. These minutes offer a very different picture.The members, the Irish chemist Richard Kirwan taking the most active role, discussed current issues in science and reported onscientific and industrial advances from all Europe, and even from Hudson's Bay, showing early English awareness of the latest developments. The Minute Book gives a sense of history at a particular period, and is invaluable to all historians, whatever their specialism.

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

Author : Joseph Priestley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (27 download)

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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:

The Public Life of Thomas Cooper, 1783-1839

Author : Dumas Malone
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Public Life of Thomas Cooper, 1783-1839 written by Dumas Malone and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Yale Historical Publications

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Yale Historical Publications written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Public Life of Thomas Cooper, 1783-1839

Author : Dumas Malone
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book The Public Life of Thomas Cooper, 1783-1839 written by Dumas Malone and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: