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	Joseph Priestley
		Joseph Priestley (1733–1804), best remembered for his discovery of oxygen, was ceremoniously welcomed to the United States in 1794 as a leading contemporary thinker and friend of the new republic.
		Priestley was educated to be a minister in the churches that dissented from the Church of England, and he spent most of his life employed as a preacher or teacher.
		Priestley interpreted them in terms of phlogiston—the hypothetical principle of flammability that was thought to give metals their luster and ductility and was widely used in the early eighteenth century to explain combustion, calcination, smelting, respiration, and other chemical processes.
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	Joseph Priestley - MSN Encarta
		Joseph Priestley (1733-1804), British chemist, who isolated and described several gases, including oxygen, and who is considered one of the founders of modern chemistry because of his contributions to experimentation.
		Priestley was born on March 13, 1733, in Fieldhead, Yorkshire, the son of a Calvinist minister.
		Priestley was encouraged to conduct experiments in the new science of electricity by the American statesman and scientist Benjamin Franklin, whom he met in London in 1766.
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	Joseph Priestley - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Joseph Priestley (March 13, 1733 – February 8, 1804) was an English chemist, philosopher, dissenting clergyman, and educator.
		Priestley's house was next to a brewery and Priestley began to experiment with the gas given off by fermenting beer.
		Both Priestley and Scheele were unaware that oxygen was a chemical element; Priestley named the gas (which he had generated by heating red mercuric oxide with a "burning lens") "de-phlogisticated air", in accordance with the phlogiston theory which held at the time.
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	Joseph Priestley - LoveToKnow 1911
		JOSEPH PRIESTLEY (1733-1804), English chemist and Nonconformist minister, was born on the 13th of March 1733 at Fieldhead, a hamlet near Birstal in the West Riding of Yorkshire.
		Priestley, according to his own account, "had little to do with it." But his predilections in favour of the revolutionists were notorious, and the mob seized the occasion to burn his chapel and sack his house at Fairhill.
		Priestley displayed much ingenuity in devising apparatus suited to his requirements and in carrying out and varying his experiments; it was in the interpretation of results that he was deficient.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Joseph_Priestley (1390 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Joseph Priestley (1733 - 1804)
		Joseph Priestley was an English chemist who is best known for his isolation and description of several gases, particularly oxygen.
		Priestley was born on 13 March, 1733, in Birstall Fieldhead, near Leeds, Yorkshire.
		Priestley himself trained as a minister of the Dissenting Church, which comprised several churches that had separated from the Church of England, and from 1767 to 1772 he held the appointment of Unitarian minister in Leeds.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A26151419 (1335 words)

	Joseph Priestley - FREE Joseph Priestley Biography \| Encyclopedia.com: Facts, Pictures, Information!
		His improvements in the manipulation of gases enabled him to investigate the properties of gases and to discover new ones, including sulfur dioxide, ammonia, and what Priestly called "dephlogisticated air," the gas that Lavoisier named oxygen and made the basis of experiments that were the foundation of modern chemistry.
		Joseph Priestley was born on March 13, 1733, at Fieldhead.
		John Boynton Priestley was born in Bradford, Yorkshire, in the North of England on September 13,...
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	Joeseph Priesley
		Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) discovered Oxygen gas on 1 August 1774 in the laboratory at Bowood House, Wiltshire, England; seat of the Marquess of Lansdown.
		Priestley was born in Birstal Fieldhead near Leeds in 13th March 1733, the eldest son of a cloth-dresser.
		Priestley was a true polymath writing books and articles on theology, history, education, aesthetics and politics as well as science.
	www.brlsi.org /notable/Priestley.htm (1086 words)

	Joseph Priestley Papers, American Philosophical Society
		Priestley's religious and political views conspired to ensure his supreme unpopularity during the shifting political tides of the French Revolutionary era, and he became a lightning rod for the government-inspired backlash against republicanism and "radicalism" of all sorts.
		The Joseph Priestley Papers consists of 46 letters and 70 copies of letters written by the scientist, educator, and Unitarian minister, Joseph Priestley, mostly to the Librarian of the American Philosophical Society, John Vaughan, and Priestley's brother-in-law, John Wilkinson.
		Priestley's difficult decision to send first his sons, then himself abroad due to the "increasing bigotry and violence of the High church party" in England are thoroughly chronicled, as are his bitterness against the confluence of "church power," xenophobia, and anti-Republicanism.
	www.amphilsoc.org /library/mole/p/priestle.htm (1405 words)

	UCC Joseph Priestley
		Priestley was born in 1933, the son of a cloth finisher.
		Joseph Priestley, openly sympathetic to both the French and the American revolutions, was in jeopardy.
		Joseph Gales was a Unitarian, born in 1841 in Eckington, England.
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	Joseph Priestley
		Joseph Priestley College is named after the man who discovered the existence of oxygen.
		Joseph Priestley was a great character who was described as a 'scientific pacifist' and accused of courting controversy for expressing his radical views.
		Another job of Joseph's was the Librarian to the Earl of Shelburne (later first Marquis of Lansdowne) and during this time he became one of the London Ministers and took some part in their deliberations.
	www.joseph-priestley.ac.uk /AboutUs/JosephPriestley.htm (333 words)

	Joseph Priestley
		Priestley was opposed to virtually any social safety nets -- such as the Poor Laws -- believing that the discipline of hunger and the absence of distractions (ale-houses and the like) would generate discipline and improve the morals of the poor.
		Priestley's 1768 book argued that the function of government was to promote "general happiness" and that this was the only standard by which the evaluate policy.
		Priestley also turned to theology, becoming one of the primary promulgators of Unitarianism, a religious movement that sought to unite all non-conforming Protestant sects under its ultra-liberal, rationalist umbrella.
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	The religion of Joseph Priestley, chemist, minister
		Priestley had inherited stuttering, which he never quite overcame; he adopted a conversational style of speaking in public.
		In 1773 Priestley was invited by Lord Shelburne, a Whig statesman, to be nominally his librarian-actually an intellectual advisor.
		Priestley was relieved from weekday chores by a colleague; he himself started a nonconformist Sunday school to rival the establishment one started there earlier; he became involved in the public library.
	www.adherents.com /people/pp/Joseph_Priestley.html (1017 words)

	Priestley, Joseph
		Priestley was the oldest of six children of a modestly successful cloth dresser.
		Priestley, however, did not accept all of Lavoisier's views and continued in particular to uphold the phlogiston theory until, in his old age, he was its last champion.
		During these years, Priestley was widely known as the defender of the principles of the French Revolution and an ardent advocate of civil and religious liberty.
	www.spaceship-earth.de /Biograph/Priestley.htm (2111 words)

	Joseph Priestley, 1733-1804
		Priestley argued that writing a history of science was important since it could show how human intelligence discovers and directs the forces of nature.
		Priestley's skill in the use of laboratory apparatus proved valuable in his study of the chemical properties of gases.
		Priestley isolated oxygen and observed its importance in combustion, but it was left to Cavendish and Lavoisier to appreciate the theoretical significance of his work.
	www.historyguide.org /intellect/priestley.html (995 words)

	PriestleySociety.net - Home of the Priestely Society
		Joseph Priestley was an English scientist and one of the key developers in the discovery of oxygen (1774-1776).
		Joseph Priestley was a scientist, a political theorist and a clergyman.
		The advancement of education in Joseph Priestley of Birstall and Heckmondwike (1733-1804), in particular by celebrating and honouring his legacy, preserving local heritage and items of historic interest and educating the public on his contribution towards education, science, religion and politics.
	www.priestleysociety.net (732 words)

	Robert E. Schofield: The Enlightened Joseph Priestley
		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.
		The Enlightenment of Joseph Priestley begins the daunting task of finally producing an integrated overview of Priestley the man, the scientist, the theologian, the political theorist, and the educator—begins, rather than completes, because Schofield has chosen to terminate his account in 1773, the year that Priestley turned forty.
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	Joseph Priestley
		Joseph Priestley was born at Fieldhead near Leeds, Yorkshire, England, on 13th March, 1733.
		Priestley also isolated and described the properties of several other gases, including ammonia, nitrous oxide, sulfur dioxide, and carbon monoxide.
		In 1780, Joseph Priestley became a minister in Birmingham.
	www.zephyrus.co.uk /josephpriestley.html (356 words)

	Joseph Priestley Biography \| World of Biology
		Priestley was born into a religious Calvinist family, and was encouraged by his parents to enter the ministry, not in the Church of England, but in the Dissenting church.
		Soon Priestley's interests turned to the study of gases or "airs" as they were called in his day.
		In 1774, Priestley was in the employ of the earl of Shelburne as a tutor to his two sons.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/joseph-priestley-wob (534 words)

	Joseph Priestley by Don Carter
		Priestley's three years of accelerated study at the academy were happy ones where he found a liberal and inquiring atmosphere among his teachers and fellow students.
		Priestley's early studies in electricity convinced him that a chronicle of knowledge on the subject was required.
		Joseph Priestley had become something of a social outcast from his friends in the Royal Society due to his liberal political and religious views.
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	Joseph Priestley Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		The English clergyman and chemist Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) contributed to the foundation of the chemistry of gases and discovered the role of oxygen in the animal-plant metabolic system.
		Joseph Priestley was born on March 13, 1733, at Fieldhead.
		Priestley hated all oppression, openly supported the American and French revolutions, and denounced the slave trade and religious bigotry.
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	Joseph Priestley: Discoverer of Oxygen
		Joseph Priestley was born in Yorkshire, the eldest son of a maker of wool cloth.
		Perhaps, Priestley wrote, "the injury which is continually done by such a large number of animals ã is, in part at least, repaired by the vegetable creation." Thus he observed that plants release oxygen into the air—the process known to us as photosynthesis.
		Priestley called his discovery "dephlogisticated air" on the theory that it supported combustion so well because it had no phlogiston in it, and hence could absorb the maximum amount during burning.
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	Joseph Priestley
		Joseph Priestley was one of those tinkerers that happened to stumble across some of the most important scientific discoveries of all time.
		Priestley didn't know it at the time, but he was about to become one of the most famous chemists of all time.
		Priestley discovered that graphite was a conductor of electricity, isolated and described the properties of carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, and oxygen, invented soda pop, identified the gases involved in plant respiration (unifying chemistry and biology), and observed photosynthesis for the first time.
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	Special Collections Library
		Yet Joseph Priestley was more than a scientist; he was the author of more than 150 books and pamphlets on an astonishing range of subjects.
		Priestley supported both the French and American revolutions and published his opinions, which made him a very unpopular figure among the ruling classes in England.
		Additional archival materials relating to the Joseph Priestley house, Northumberland, Pa. deeds and correspondence, 1882-1955, are in the collections of the Penn State University Archives.
	www.libraries.psu.edu /speccolls/rbm/collections/priestley.htm (776 words)

	Joseph Priestley House
		Joseph Priestley was born in Fieldhead, England, on March 13, 1733.
		Joseph and Mary had four children, Joseph Jr., William, Sarah, and Henry, whose nickname was Harry.
		Joseph depended on Mary to take care of all the household work while he taught school and worked in his laboratory.
	www.josephpriestleyhouse.org /kids.html (672 words)

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