Joseph Priestley is famous among scientists mainly for his discovery of oxygen, but he also achieved many other great "firsts" in science. In this presentation, emphasis will be placed on that aspect of his work for which he became "infamous". Priestley adopted, developed, and advanced the theory of phlogiston to explain why materials react with oxygen. He continually had to refine the theory, but in the end, he died ignominiously in the eyes of the developing community of chem. scientists. To his dying day, he refused to acknowledge the nonexistence of phlogiston as the driving force for chem. reactions.
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/2142/127635
DOI
https://doi.org/10.70359/bhc2005v030p063
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Copyright 2005 Division of the History of Chemistry
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