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020			_a0271016620 (alk. paper)
035			_a(OCoLC)36170553
035			_a(OCoLC)ocm36170553
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050	0	0	_aBX9869.P8 _bS36 1997
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100	1		_aSchofield, Robert E. _927938
245	1	4	_aThe enlightenment of Joseph Priestley : _ba study of his life and work from 1733 to 1773 / _cRobert E. Schofield.
260			_aUniversity Park, Pa. : _bPennsylvania State University Press, _c1997.
263			_a9711
300			_axii, 305 p. : _bill. ; _c24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 277-295) and index.
520			_aJoseph Priestley (1733-1804) is one of the major figures of the English Enlightenment. A contemporary and friend of Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, he exceeded even these polymaths in the breadth of his curiosity and learning. Yet no one has attempted an all-inclusive biography of Priestley, probably because he was simply too many persons for anyone easily to comprehend in a single study. Robert Schofield has devoted a lifetime of scholarship to this task.
520	8		_aThe result is a magisterial book, covering the life and works of Priestley during the critical first forty years of his life.
520	8		_aAlthough Priestley is best known as a chemist, this book is considerably more than a study in the history of science. As any good biographer must, Schofield has thoroughly studied the many activities in which Priestley was engaged. Among them are theology, electricity, chemistry, politics, English grammar, rhetoric, and educational philosophy.
520	8		_aSchofield situates Priestley, the provincial dissenter, within the social, political, and intellectual contexts of his day and examines all the works Priestley wrote and published during this period.
520	8		_aSchofield singles out the first forty years of Priestley's life because these were the years of preparation and trial during which Priestley qualified for the achievements that were to make him famous. The discovery of oxygen, the defenses of Unitarianism, and the political liberalism that characterize the mature Priestley - all are foreshadowed in the young Priestley.
520	8		_aA brief epilogue looks ahead to the next thirty years when Priestley was forced out of England and settled in Pennsylvania, the subject of Schofield's next book. But this volume stands alone as the definitive study of the making of Joseph Priestley.
600	1	0	_aPriestley, Joseph, _d1733-1804. _96810
650	1	0	_aUnitarian churches _xClergy _vBiography. _927939
650		0	_aChemists _vBiography. _927940
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