Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
1. Birstall Fieldhead and Heckmondwike, 1733-1752
2. Daventry Academy, 1752-1755
3. Needham Market and Nantwich, 1755-1761
4. Warrington Academy, 1761-1767: Language, Rhetoric
5. Warrington Academy, 1761-1767: Liberal Education, History, Biography
6. Warrington Academy, 1761-1767: Electricity
7. Leeds, 1767-1773: Theology, Natural Religion
8. Leeds, 1767-1773: Religious Polemics, Theology
9. Leeds, 1767-1773: Politics
10. Leeds, 1767-1773: Electricity, Perspective, Optics
11. Leeds, 1767-1733: Cooke, Pyrmont Water, Chemistry, Shelburne
Epilogue
Select Bibliography
Index
Robert E. Schofield is Professor of History Emeritus at Iowa State University, where he was also Director of the Program in History of Technology and Science. He is the editor of A Scientific Autobiography of Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) and the author or editor of numerous other books.
“Praise for The Enlightenment of Joseph Priestley (1997): It is
with great pleasure that one turns to this long anticipated
biography of Priestley by Robert Schofield. . . . 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. The amount
of information on Priestley is so vast that at least two volumes
will be required to complete the task. . . . Though chemists will
be disappointed that Schofield’s decision to terminate his account
in 1773 means that most of Priestley’s most important work on
pneumatic chemistry is not covered, they will still find the book
of great interest and will be likely, like the reviewer, to keep
their fingers crossed in anticipation that we will soon see the
publication of volume two.”—William B. Jensen Journal of Chemical
Education
“This volume stands alone as the definitive study of the making of
an intellectual giant.”—Pennsylvania Heritage
“Schofield vivifies the life and thought of an elusive, demanding
figure. . . . [His book] combines masterful scholarship with
balanced historical judgment.”—D. L. LeMahieu Church History
“This is a magnificent book, a real monument in modern scholarly
letters. Robert Schofield has brought together the many different
strands of Priestley's life and achievement and has related them to
the general background in which his thought was forged. The result
is a readable, interesting, scholarly, perceptive, and generally
splendid book.”—I. Bernard Cohen,Harvard University
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