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Informationen zum Autor Steven Johnson is the author of seven bestsellers, including Future Perfect , Where Good Ideas Come From , The Invention of Air , The Ghost Map , and Everything Bad Is Good for You , and is the editor of the anthology The Innovator’s Cookbook . He is the founder of a variety of influential websites—most recently, outside.in—and writes for Time , Wired , The New York Times , and The Wall Street Journal . He lives in Marin County, California, with his wife and three sons. Klappentext From the bestselling author of How We Got To Now, The Ghost Map and Farsighted, a new national bestseller: the "exhilarating"( Los Angeles Times) story of Joseph Priestley, "a founding father long forgotten"(Newsweek) and a brilliant man who embodied the relationship between science, religion, and politics for America's Founding Fathers. In The Invention of Air, national bestselling author Steven Johnson tells the fascinating story of Joseph Priestley-scientist and theologian, protégé of Benjamin Franklin, friend of Thomas Jefferson-an eighteenth-century radical thinker who played pivotal roles in the invention of ecosystem science, the discovery of oxygen, the uses of oxygen, scientific experimentation, the founding of the Unitarian Church, and the intellectual development of the United States. As he did so masterfully in The Ghost Map, Steven Johnson uses a dramatic historical story to explore themes that have long engaged him: innovative strategies, intellectual models, and the way new ideas emerge and spread, and the environments that foster these breakthroughs. Table of Contents Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Epigraph CHAPTER ONE - The Electricians CHAPTER TWO - Rose and Nightshade CHAPTER THREE - Intermezzo: An Island of Coal CHAPTER FOUR - The Wild Gas CHAPTER FIVE - A Comet in the System Acknowledgements NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY ALSO BY STEVEN JOHNSON Interface Culture: How New Technology Transforms the Way We Create and Communicate Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today’s Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World RIVERHEAD BOOKS a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. New York 2008 RIVERHEAD BOOKS Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, USA Penguin Group (Canada), 90 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 700, Toronto, Ontario M4P 2Y3, Canada (a division of Pearson Canada Inc.) Penguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England Penguin Ireland, 25 St Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2, Ireland (a division of Penguin Books Ltd) Penguin Group (Australia), 250 Camberwell Road, Camberwell, Victoria 3124, Australia (a division of Pearson Australia Group Pty Ltd) Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd, 11 Community Centre, Panchsheel Park, New Delhi-110 017, India Penguin Group (NZ), 67 Apollo Drive, Rosedale, North Shore 0632, New Zealand (a division of Pearson New Zealand Ltd) Penguin Books (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd, 24 Sturdee Avenue, Rosebank, Johannesburg 2196, South Africa Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England Copyright © 2008 by Steven Johnson All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, scanned, or distributed in any printed or electronic form without permission. Please ...
