Science, medicine and dissent : Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) ; papers celebrating the 250th anniversary of the birth of Joseph Priestley together with a catalogue of an exhibition held at the Royal Society and the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine / edited by R.G.W. Anderson and Christopher Lawrence.

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1986
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Credit: Science, medicine and dissent : Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) ; papers celebrating the 250th anniversary of the birth of Joseph Priestley together with a catalogue of an exhibition held at the Royal Society and the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine / edited by R.G.W. Anderson and Christopher Lawrence. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Contents PREFACE vii LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS x ACKNOWLEDGMENTS x CONTRIBUTORS xi Christopher Lawrence Priestley in Tahiti: The Medical Interests of a Dissenting Chemist 1 John Hedley Brooke Joseph Priestley (1733 -1804) and William Whewell (1794 -1866): 11 Apologists and Historians of Science. A Tale of Two Stereotypes Martin Fitzpatrick Joseph Priestley and the Millennium 29 Simon Schaffer Priestley and the Politics of Spirit 39 JohnMcEvoy Causes and Laws, Powers and Principles: The Metaphysical 55 Foundations of Priestley's Concept of Phlogiston D.O. Thomas Progress, Liberty and Utility: The Political Philosophy of 73 Joseph Priestley Michael Barfoot Priestley, Reid's Circle and the Third Organon of Human 81 Reasoning R.G.W. Anderson Priestley Displayed 91 R.G.W. Anderson and CATALOGUE 97 Ann K. Newmark