English chemist, theologian, educator, and political theorist (1733–1804)
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He isolated oxygen in 1774 but refused to believe in it. Joseph Priestley called it "dephlogisticated air" and spent the rest of his career defending a defunct theory while the chemical revolution passed him by.
Priestley was an English chemist, theologian, and grammarian who published over 150 works across science, religion, and politics. He isolated oxygen through the thermal decomposition of mercuric oxide in 1774, invented carbonated water, and discovered several gases, but his scientific reputation eventually collapsed under his stubborn allegiance to phlogiston theory. He tried to fuse Enlightenment rationalism with Christian theism, advocating materialism and determinism in service of what he believed would be human progress toward the Christian millennium. His support for the American and Fren…
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Our anxiety during the King of France's escape, and our joy on his capture, cannot be described.
All hereditary Government is in its nature tyranny.
Contemporary with Vitellio and Peccam was... Roger Bacon, a man of almost universal genius, and who wrote on almost every branch of science.
Great as Bacon was, he was far from being free from the mistakes and prejudices of those who went before him.
Man derives two capital advantages from the superiority of his intellectual powers.
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