Joseph Priestley, natural philosopher.

"Thomas Reid's Critique of Joseph Priestley: Context and Chronology"

“More Subtle than the Electric Aura”: Georgian Medical Electricity, the Spirit of Animation and the Development of Erasmus Darwin's Psychophysiology

This paper examines the importance of medical electricity in Georgian England, the contexts and rationale for the use of electrical treatments, and the relationship between medical electricity and natural philosophy. It focuses upon the application of medical electricity by thephysician andnatural philosopherErasmusDarwin, and the role of electricity in his philosophy and psychophysiology. The ...

God and the balance of nature : a commentary on Priestley ( 1772 ) ‘ Observations on different kinds of air ’

Historians of chemistry usually associate the eighteenth century with the Chemical Revolution, but it could just as readily be called ‘the century of gases’ (or ‘airs’, as they were called in the eighteenth century). In the early part of the century, the British pneumatic chemists struggled to replace the traditional notion ‘Air’, understood as an inert chemical element, with the concept of ‘ai...

Gases, God and the balance of nature: a commentary on Priestley (1772) ‘Observations on different kinds of air’

Historians of chemistry usually associate the eighteenth century with the Chemical Revolution, but it could just as readily be called 'the century of gases' (or 'airs', as they were called in the eighteenth century). In the early part of the century, the British pneumatic chemists struggled to replace the traditional notion 'Air', understood as an inert chemical element, with the concept of 'ai...

nature : a commentary on Priestley ( 1772 ) ‘ Observations on different kinds of air ’

Historians of chemistry usually associate the eighteenth century with the Chemical Revolution, but it could just as readily be called ‘the century of gases’ (or ‘airs’, as they were called in the eighteenth century). In the early part of the century, the British pneumatic chemists struggled to replace the traditional notion ‘Air’, understood as an inert chemical element, with the concept of ‘ai...