Joseph Priestley, Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian"This volume, with essays on the different aspects of Priestley's work by specialist authors, provides a new, up-to-date account of all of Priestley's activities, as a minister, educationalist, scientist, philosopher, theologian, political thinker, and historian, with a summary of his life and an account of his last years in America. It will re-establish him as a major intellectual figure in Britain and America in the second half of the eighteenth century."--BOOK JACKET. |
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Índice
Introduction | 1 |
1 Joseph Priestley Minister and Teacher | 20 |
2 Joseph Priestley Enlightened Experimentalist | 49 |
3 Joseph Priestley Metaphysician and Philosopher of Religion | 80 |
4 Joseph Priestley Political Philosopher | 113 |
5 Joseph Priestley and the Complexities of Latitudinarianism in the 1770s | 144 |
6 Historical Perspectives in the Mind of Joseph Priestley | 172 |
7 Joseph Priestley in America | 203 |
Selected Bibliography | 231 |
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Informação bibliográfica
| Título | Joseph Priestley, Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian |
| Editores | Isabel Rivers, David L. Wykes |
| Editora | OUP Oxford, 2008 |
| ISBN | 0199215308, 9780199215300 |
| Número de páginas | 252 páginas |
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