NOUN
- English chemist who isolated many gases and discovered oxygen (independently of Scheele) (1733-1804)
How To Use Joseph Priestley In A Sentence
- Newton's millenarian enthusiasm, based upon the deeply held notion that human history was orchestrated by God, was matched later in the century by the millennial speculations of the high priest of rational Dissent, Joseph Priestley.
- It was first synthesized in 1776 by Joseph Priestley and was named ‘diminished nitrous air.’
- Joseph Priestley, the great Unitarian humanist and discoverer of oxygen, was wedded to a bogus theory of the chemistry of gasses wherein they burned into “phlogiston,” which he called a “principle of inflammability.” Flaws of Gravity
- Joseph Priestley had edited Hartley into a textbook of associationist psychology by eliminating much of the physiology (and by also eliminating much of the rather odd theology with which Hartley ended his work). John Stuart Mill
- This week marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of Joseph Priestley.
- This week marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of Joseph Priestley.
- This attribution of mercenariness to Burke (who had in fact accepted a small pension from the British government for services rendered, and who had also been the London lobbyist or representative of the colony of New York during his defense of the rights of the American colonists) is also to be found in the work of Thomas Paine and Dr. Joseph Priestley. Reactionary Prophet
