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Joseph Priestley

Joseph Priestley
Joseph Priestley
Pastellzeichnung von Ellen Sharples, um 1795
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* 24. März 1733 in Fieldhead
† 6. Februar 1804 in Northumberland County (Pennsylvania)
britisch-amerikanischer Naturforscher, Philosoph und Theologe
Entdecker des von ihm dephlogistisierte Luft genannten Sauerstoffs (unabhängig von Scheele)
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deutsche Übersetzungen

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  • Auserlesene Kleine Werke dreyer berühmter Englischer Chymisten, Herrn Priestley, Henry und Black … Heineck und Faber, Kopenhagen / Leipzig 1774, VD18 10372164, SLUB Dresden MDZ München
    • Anweisung wie man das Wasser mit einer fixen Luft schwängern soll, um demselben den besondern Geist und Tugenden des pyrmonter und andrer mineralischer Wasser gleicher Natur mitzutheilen.
      → Directions for impregnating water with fixed air

englische Originale

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  • A Description of a Chart of Biography; With a Catalogue of alle the Names inserted in it, And the Dates annexed to them. Warrington 1765; ²1765 Google; London 1794 Google; 1800 Google; Philadelphia 1803 Google
  • The History and Present State of Electricity, With Original Experiments. London 1767 MPIWG, MDZ München
  • A Familiar Introduction to the Study of Electricity. London 1768 Google; ²1769 Google; ³1777 Google
  • A View of the Principles and Conduct of the Protestant Dissenters, With Respect to the Civil and Ecclesiastical Constitution of England. London 1769; ²[1769] Google
 
A New Chart of History, 1769
  • A Description of a New Chart of History. London 1769 [Begleittext zu der separat veröffentlichten Wandtafel, siehe Bild rechts]; ²1770 Google; ³1775 Google; 51781 Google; 71789 Google
  • A Familiar Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Perspective. London 1770 Internet Archive
  • A Free Address to Protestant Dissenters, On the Subject of Church Discipline; With A Preliminary Discourse, concerning the Spirit of Christianity, and the Corruption of it by False Notions of Religion. London 1770 MDZ München
    • Additions to the Address to Protestant Dissenters, On the Subject of the Lord’s Supper, With some Corrections of it. London 1770 Google
  • Institutes of Natural and Revealed Religion. 2 Bände. London 1772 Internet Archive
  • The History and Present State of Discoveries relating to Vision, Light, and Colours. London 1772 MPIWG
  • Directions for Impregnating Water With Fixed Air; In order to communicate to it the peculiar Spirit and Virtues of Pyrmont Water, And other Mineral Waters of a similar Nature. London 1772 Google
  • Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air. London 1774–1775
  • Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air. 2nd edition corrected. London 1775 MDZ München
  • Philosophical Empiricism: Containing Remarks on a Charge of Plagiarism respecting Dr. H–s, Interspersed With various Observations relating to Different Kinds of Air. London 1775 Google
  • Hartley’s Theory of the Human Mind, on the Principle of the Association of Ideas; With Essays Relating to the Subject of it. London 1775 Virginia
  • Disquisitions Relating to Matter and Spirit. To Which is Added, The History of the Philosophical Doctrine concerning the Origin of the Soul … London 1777 Internet Archive
  • Experiments and Observations Relating to Various Branches of Natural Philosophy; With a Continuation of the Observations on Air. London 1779 / Birmingham 1781
  • An History of the Corruptions of Christianity. 2 Bände. Birmingham 1782
  • Letters to The Jews; Inviting Them to an Amicable Discussion of the Evidences of Christianity. Birmingham 1786 Google; ²1787 Michigan
  • Discourses on Various Subjects, Including Several on Particular Occasions. Birmingham 1787 Internet Archive
  • Discourses Relating to The Evidences of Revealed Religion, Delivered in the Church of the Universalists at Philadelphia, 1796. Philadelphia 1796–1797
  • Experiments and Observations Relating to the Analysis of Atmospherical Air; Also, Farther Experiments Relating to the Generation of Air From Water. London 1796 Google
  • Considerations on the Doctrine of Phlogiston, and The Decomposition of Water. Philadelphia 1796–1797
  • The Doctrine of Phlogiston Established, and That of The Composition of Water Refuted. Northumberland 1800 Internet Archive
  • Discourses on Various Subjects, Intended to Have Been Delivered in Philadelphia. Northumberland 1805 Internet Archive
  • Memoirs of Dr. Joseph Priestley, to the Year 1795. Written by Himself: With a Continuation, to the Time of his Decease, By his Son, Joseph Priestley: And Observations on his Writings, By Thomas Cooper … and the Rev. William Christie. Northumberland 1806

Veröffentlichungen in Periodika

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Priestley veröffentlichte zahlreiche Aufsätze und Mitteilungen, u. a. in:

  • Philosophical Transactions
    • An Account of Rings consisting of all the Prismatic Colours, made by Electrical Explosions on the Surface of Pieces of Metal. In: Band 58, S. 68–74 doi:10.1098/rstl.1768.0010

Übersetzungen ins Deutsche finden sich z. B. in:

Korrespondenz

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  • Henry Carrington Bolton (Hg.): Scientific Correspondence of Joseph Priestley. Ninety-Seven Letters … New York 1892 Internet Archive

Sekundärliteratur

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  • J. D. Reuss: Das gelehrte England, 2. Teil. Berlin / Stettin 1791, S. 327–332 Google
  • [W. Cobbett:] Observations on the Emigration of Dr. Joseph Priestly, and on the Several Addresses Delivered to Him, on His Arrival at New-York. Philadelphia / New York 1794 Internet Archive
  • John Cory: The Life of Joseph Priestley, LL. D. F.R.S. &c. &c. With Critical Observations on his Works. Birmingham 1804 Google, Google
  • J. C. Adelung / H. W. Rotermund: Fortsetzung und Ergänzungen zu Christian Gottlieb Jöchers allgemeinem Gelehrten-Lexiko, Band 6. Bremen 1819, Sp. 907–916 Google
  • Commemoration of the Centenary of the Birth of Dr. Priestley. In: The London and Edinburgh Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science, Band 2 (1833), S. 382–402 Biodiversity Heritage Library
  • W. de Fonvielle: La vie et les travaux du docteur Priestley. Paris 1875
  • R. Hill: Joseph Priestley (1733–1804) and his discovery of photosynthesis in 1771. In: G. Forti, M. Avron, A. Melandri (Hgg.): Proceedings of the IInd International Congress on Photosynthesis Research. Den Haag 1972, S. 1–18 Google
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