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单词 Priestley, Joseph (1733–1804)
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Priestley, Joseph (1733–1804)

Chemistry
  • who in 1755 became a Presbyterian minister. In Leeds, in 1767, he experimented with carbon dioxide (‘fixed air’) from a nearby brewery; with it he invented soda water. He moved to a ministry in Birmingham in 1780, and in 1791 his revolutionary views caused a mob to burn his house, as a result of which he emigrated to the USA in 1794. In the early 1770s he experimented with combustion and produced the gases hydrogen chloride, sulphur dioxide, and dinitrogen oxide (nitrous oxide). In 1774 he isolated oxygen (see also Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent).


Philosophy
  • of the Enlightenment. Although remembered chiefly for his part in the discovery of oxygen, Priestley wrote more extensively on religious, philosophical and educational themes. A nonconformist and eventually a unitarian, he advocated ideals of education and liberalism, based on an associationist psychology and an optimistic belief in the perfectibility of man. His attacks on orthodox religion, and particularly the doctrine of the Trinity led to general horror, and in 1791, after a dissenting celebration of the French Revolution, his house, laboratory, and library were burned by a rampaging patriotic mob. Priestley eventually emigrated to America, where he was befriended by Thomas Jefferson, and founded the first Unitarian church in that country.


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