v, [2], 96 pp. (12mo) 20.5x13 cm (8x5"), original paper wrappers bound with string, housed in modern morocco-backed cloth clamshell case, spine lettered in gilt. Second Edition. Selection of letters on a variety of topics including local politics and religion, but also ruminations on the ongoing French Revolution. With additions including a friend's travels to the United States. Joseph Priestley (1733–1804) was a British natural philosopher, dissenting clergyman, political theorist, theologian, and educator. Today he is best remembered for his isolation of "dephlogisticated air" (oxygen), but his determination to defend phlogiston theory left him isolated within the scientific community. His outspoken support of the French Revolution aroused public and governmental suspicion; he was eventually forced to flee in 1791, first to London and then to the United States after a mob burned down his home and church. He spent the last ten years of his life living in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania.
v, [2], 96 pp. (12mo) 20.5x13 cm (8x5"), original paper wrappers bound with string, housed in modern morocco-backed cloth clamshell case, spine lettered in gilt. Second Edition. Selection of letters on a variety of topics including local politics and religion, but also ruminations on the ongoing French Revolution. With additions including a friend's travels to the United States. Joseph Priestley (1733–1804) was a British natural philosopher, dissenting clergyman, political theorist, theologian, and educator. Today he is best remembered for his isolation of "dephlogisticated air" (oxygen), but his determination to defend phlogiston theory left him isolated within the scientific community. His outspoken support of the French Revolution aroused public and governmental suspicion; he was eventually forced to flee in 1791, first to London and then to the United States after a mob burned down his home and church. He spent the last ten years of his life living in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania.
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