An account of the life and scientific career of Joseph Priestley is presented. Priestley's expts. were sound, but in the end the failure of his criticisms lay precisely on his dependence upon those expts. He had a particularly virulent infection of that eighteenth-century British obsession with Francis Bacon and mistakenly believed that expts. could stand by themselves, with interpretation devoids of theor. implications. He had a persistent and erroneous conviction that he could invalidate the new system by disproving the expts. of antiphlogistonists.
Publisher
Division of the History of Chemistry
ISSN
1053-4385
Type of Resource
text
Genre of Resource
article
Language
eng
Permalink
https://hdl.handle.net/2142/127634
DOI
https://doi.org/10.70359/bhc2005v030p057
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Copyright 2005 Division of the History of Chemistry
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