Memoirs of Dr. Joseph Priestley

Memoirs of Dr. Joseph Priestley
Author: Joseph Priestley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 454
Release: 2010-06-10
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1108014208

Volume 2 of this 1807 work details the life and thought of eighteenth century British intellectual Joseph Priestley.

Memoirs of Dr. Joseph Priestley

Memoirs of Dr. Joseph Priestley
Author: Joseph Priestley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010-06-10
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9781108014205

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'.

Memoirs of Dr. Joseph Priestley, to the Year 1795

Memoirs of Dr. Joseph Priestley, to the Year 1795
Author: Thomas Cooper
Publisher: Palala Press
Total Pages:
Release: 2016-05-22
Genre:
ISBN: 9781358604386

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