Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
Preface
Part I Calne, 1773–1780
1. Shelburne and Politics
2. Religion and Theology
3. "Common–Sense" and Associationism
4. Matter and Spirit
5. Philosophical Necessity
6. Observations on Air I and II: Oxygen
7. Observations on Air III and Natural Philosophy I
Part II Birmingham, 1780–1791
8. Science and the Lunar Society
9. Science and the Chemical Revolution
10. Religion
11. Theology
12. Education, Metaphysics, History
13. Politics and the Birmingham Riots
Part III Clapton/Hackney (1791–1794) and Northumberland, Pennsylvania (1794–1804)
14. Politics, Science, Education, Religion
15. Emigration to the United States, Politics, and Education
16. Science
17. Religion, Death
Appendix: Family
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. The first volume of his Priestley biography, The Enlightenment of Joseph Priestley, was published by Penn State Press in 1997. He is also the editor of A Scientific Autobiography of Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) (1966).
"Robert Schofield has done this remarkable man proud. Others may write shorter and perhaps more popular biographies of Joseph Priestley, but they will do so in the shadow of this magisterial work." - Derek A. Davenport, Bulletin for the History of Chemistry "Undaunted by the great mass, intellectual range and contextual variety of Joseph Priestley's work and life, Robert Schofield deserves our lasting gratitude for bringing to bear a scholarly lifetime's knowledge of his subject in this concluding volume of his intellectual biography." - John Christie, The Times Higher Education Supplement "No author has done a better job at laying out the complexities of a materialism that Priestley saw as compatible with Christianity and of a necessitarianism he thought would rescue Protestantism from the absurdity of Calvinist doctrine.... He has written in a masterly way about a subject that is uniquely his own." - Margaret C. Jacob, The Journal of American History"
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