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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 Reissued in its 1776 second edition, Volume 2 of this three-volume collection presents groundbreaking early investigations into gases. Zusammenfassung By the late eighteenth century! scientists had discovered certain types of gas! such as 'fixed air' (carbon dioxide)! but their composition was little understood. This three-volume collection presents groundbreaking investigations into gases. Volume 2 (second edition! 1776) includes data on what Priestley's calls 'dephlogisticated air' (oxygen). Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Introduction; 1. Of vitriolic acid air; 2. Of vegetable acid air; 3. Of dephlogisticated air; 4. A more particular account of some processes for the production of dephlogisticated air; 5. Miscellaneous observations on the properties of dephlogisticated air; 6. Of air procured from various substances by means of heat only; 7. Of air produced by the solution of vegetable substances in spirit of nitre; 8. Of air produced by the solution of animal substances in spirit of nitre; 9. Miscellaneous experiments relating to nitre, the nitrous acid and nitrous air; 10. Some observations on common air; 11. Of the fluor acid air; 12. Experiments and observations relating to fixed air; 13. Miscellaneous observations; 14. Experiments and observations on charcoal; 15. Of the impregnation of water with fixed air; 16. An account of some misrepresentations of the author's sentiments; 17. Experiments relating to some of the preceding sections; Appendix; Index....
