By the late eighteenth century, scientists had discovered certain types of gas, such as 'fixed air' (carbon dioxide), but their composition was little understood. Relatively few investigations into gases had taken place, and so the polymath Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) was able to make major breakthroughs in the field using a range of experimental techniques. While living near a brewery, he found that it was possible to outline the shape of the gas above fermenting beer with smoke, and that fire would burn with varying strength depending on the composition of the air. This three-volume…mehr
By the late eighteenth century, scientists had discovered certain types of gas, such as 'fixed air' (carbon dioxide), but their composition was little understood. Relatively few investigations into gases had taken place, and so the polymath Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) was able to make major breakthroughs in the field using a range of experimental techniques. While living near a brewery, he found that it was possible to outline the shape of the gas above fermenting beer with smoke, and that fire would burn with varying strength depending on the composition of the air. This three-volume collection first appeared between 1774 and 1777. Following the international interest and new discoveries prompted by the publication of its predecessor, Volume 2 - reissued here in its corrected 1776 second edition - includes accounts of further experiments, Priestley's paper on the conducting power of charcoal, and, most significantly, notes on what he calls 'dephlogisticated air' (oxygen).
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.
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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.
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.
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