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- Unlike many schoolmasters of the time, Priestley taught his students natural philosophy and even bought scientific instruments for them.
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Joseph Priestley FRS (/ ˈ p r iː s t l i /; 24 March 1733 – 6 February 1804) was an English chemist, natural philosopher, separatist theologian, grammarian, multi-subject educator, and liberal political theorist. He published over 150 works, and conducted experiments in several areas of science.
Priestley incorporated an explanation of the chemistry of these gases into the phlogiston theory, according to which combustible substances released phlogiston (an immaterial “principle of inflammability”) during burning.
Convinced that the French chemists were imposing their beliefs on the scientific community in ways similar to the Anglican “establishment” of religious and political dogma, Priestley’s Dissenter leanings strengthened his opposition to Lavoisier’s “new system of chemistry.”
Priestley interpreted them in terms of phlogiston—the hypothetical principle of flammability that was thought to give metals their luster and ductility and was widely used in the early 18th century to explain combustion, calcination, smelting, respiration, and other chemical processes.
Jun 8, 2018 · The English clergyman and chemist Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) contributed to the foundation of the chemistry of gases and discovered the role of oxygen in the animal-plant metabolic system. Joseph Priestley was born on March 13, 1733, at Fieldhead.
By 1761 he had accepted a teaching post at an academy, where a colleague who asked Priestley to assist him in his chemistry classes sparked the young minister's interest in chemistry. As chair of languages and literature, Priestley's reputation grew.
Priestley (1733-1804) was hugely productive in research and widely notorious in philosophy. He invented carbonated water and the rubber eraser, identified a dozen key chemical compounds, and wrote an important early paper about electricity.
