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Joseph Priestley and the Discovery of Oxygen
Oxygen and Other Discoveries in England
Joseph Priestley was born in Yorkshire, the eldest son of a maker of wool cloth. His mother died after bearing six children in six years. Young Joseph was sent to live with his aunt, Sarah Priestley Keighley, until the age of 19. She often entertained Presbyterian clergy at her home, and Joseph gradually came to prefer their doctrines to the grimmer Calvinism of his father. Before long, he was encouraged to study for the ministry. And study, as it turned out, was something Joseph Priestley did very well.
Aside from what he learned in the local schools, he taught himself Latin, Greek, French, Italian, German and a smattering of Middle Eastern languages, along with mathematics and philosophy. This preparation would have been ideal for study at Oxford or Cambridge, but as a Dissenter (someone who was not a member of the Church of England) Priestley was barred from England's great universities. So he enrolled at Daventry Academy, a celebrated school for Dissenters, and was exempted from a year
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Joseph Priestley
English chemist, theologian, educator, and political theorist (1733–1804)
For the English lawyer, see Joseph Child Priestley. For the British lecturer in botany, see Joseph Hubert Priestley.
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| Born | 24 March [O.S. 13 March] 1733 Birstall, Yorkshire, England |
| Died | 6 February 1804(1804-02-06) (aged 70) Northumberland, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
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Joseph PriestleyFRS (;[3] 24 March 1733 – 6 February 1804) was an English chemist, Unitarian, natural philosopher, separatisttheologian, grammarian, multi-subject educator and classical liberalpolitical theorist.[4] He published over 150 works, and conducted experiments in several areas of science.[5][6]
Priestley is credited with his independent discovery of oxygen by the thermal decomposition of mercuric oxide,[7] having isolated it in 1774.[8] During his lifetime, Priestley's considerable scientific reputation rested on his inve
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Joseph Priestley
Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) – A Grand Tour
by Patrick Mason
Joseph Priestley is one of Yorkshire’s most famous and perhaps most significant scientists. He is best known for discovering oxygen a simplified description of the quite complicated process of producing, identifying and characterising the gas which was undertaken over a number of years with contributions from Carl Scheele and Antoine Lavoisier as well as Priestley. This in itself is reason enough to commemorate him, but it is actually only one of his many scientific achievements and innovations, others of which include:
- Discovery (production and description) of other gases including: carbon monoxide (CO), nitric oxide (NO), nitrous oxide(NO2), ammonia (NH3), sulphur dioxide (SO2), hydrogen sulphide (H2S), silicon fluoride (SiF4) and nitrogen peroxide (N2O4)
- Statement of the inverse square relationship for the interaction between electric charges (to become Coulombs law more than a decade later)
- The discovery of the carbon cycle (the conversion of carbon-diox
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