ISBN10: 0271036257, ISBN13: 9780271036250, [publisher: Penn State University] Softcover New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.
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Paperback / softback. New. <p><i>In The Enlightened Joseph Priestley</i> 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.</p><p>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 <i>The Enlightened Joseph Priestley</i>, 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 ...

Penn State University Press, Date: 2009. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 480 pages. 8.98x5.98x1.26 inches. 2009. Penn State University Press ISBN 0271036257 9780271036250 [GB]

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ISBN10: 0271036257, ISBN13: 9780271036250, [publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press] Softcover Num Pages: 480 pages, 9 illustrations. BIC Classification: BGH; PD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 771. . 2009. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
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