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Informationen zum Autor English scientist, theologian, and political theorist Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) made numerous contributions to chemistry, physics, and philosophy. Priestley, who was raised in Birstall, West Yorkshire, attended local schools before going to Daventry Academy, where he became very interested in natural philosophy. Priestley made significant scientific advances. His greatest-known distxtery, made in 1774, was oxygen, which he dubbed "dephlogisticated air." His investigations into gases and their characteristics, which are detailed in "Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air," greatly enhanced our knowledge of chemistry. Priestley also studied nitrous oxide and carbon dioxide, among other gases. In addition to his scientific interests, Priestley was a prolific writer on theological and political topics as well as a dissident clergyman. He received criticism for his Unitarian beliefs and his perceived radical religious ideas. Priestley was a liberal and democratic idealist whose political writings shaped the early American history. Klappentext Priestley integrates classical rhetorical principles with contemporary theories of mind in this lecture series, reissued here in its 1781 printing. Zusammenfassung The polymath Joseph Priestley (1733–1804) delivered this lecture series in 1762, arguing that the purpose of rhetoric is moral formation. First published in 1777, and reissued here in its 1781 printing, the work draws on the theory of psychological associationism as developed by John Locke and David Hartley. Inhaltsverzeichnis Dedication; Preface; Part I: 1. The introduction; 2. Of the nature and use of topics; 3. Of universal topics; 4. Of particular topics; 5. Of amplification; Part II: 6. Of method in narrative discourses; 7. Of method in argumentative discourses; 8. Of the several parts of a proper demonstration; 9. Of the analytical method; 10. Of the method of Mr Hume's inquiry into the principles of morals, etc.; Part III: 11. Of taste; 12. What affects the passions, judgment, and imagination; 13. Of the tendency of strong emotions to produce belief; 14. Of the influence of the passions on each other; 15. Of forms of address adapted to gain belief; 16. Of objections, etc.; 17. Of the pleasures of imagination; 18. A general account of the pleasure we receive from objects; 19. Of novelty; 20. Of the sublime; 21. Of the pleasure we receive from uniformity, and variety; 22. Of the nature of metaphors; 23. Rules for the use of metaphors; 24. Of contrast; 25. Of burlesque etc.; 26. Of riddles, puns, etc.; 27. Of metoymy; 28. Of the hyperbole and bombast; 29. Of personification; 30. Of imitation; 31. Of climax; 32. Of perspicuity in style; 33. Of the resemblance between sound and sense; 34. Of harmony in verse; 35. Of harmony in prose....
