Author:Joseph Priestley (1733-1804)

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Joseph Priestley
(1733–1804)

Joseph Priestley

Works

• The rudiments of English grammar, adapted to the use of schools (1761)
• A Course of Lectures on the Theory of Language and Universal Grammar (1762)
• A Description of a Chart of Biography, 1764 (external scan)
• The History and Present State of Electricity (1767) vol 1, vol 2
• Essay on the First Principles of Government (1768)
• A familiar introduction to the theory and practice of perspective, 1770 (external scan)
• Essay on the First Principles of Government, 2nd Edition (1771) (transcription project)
• Institutes of natural and revealed religion (1772) vol 1, vol 2, vol 3
• An examination of Dr. Reid's Inquiry into the human mind on the principles of common sense (1774) (external scan)
• Experiments and observations on different kinds of air, 1775 vol 1, vol 2, vol 3
• Hartley's Theory of the Human Mind (1775)
• Disquisition Relating to Matter and Spirit (1777)
• A Course of Lectures on Oratory and Criticism (1777)
• The doctrine of philosophical necessity illustrated (1777)
• A Free Discussion of Doctrines of Materialism and Philosophical Necessity (1778, co-authored with Richard Price)
• Letters to a Philosophical Unbeliever (1780)
• A History of the Corruptions of Christianity (1782)
• Lectures on history, and general policy (1788)
• Letters to Burke (1791)
• Memoirs of Dr Joseph Priestley (1795)
• On the History and Present State of Discoveries Relating to Vision, Light, and Colours
• The General History of the Christian Church
• The Harmony of the Evangelists in Greek
• An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Perspective
• The Doctrine of Phlogiston Established

Works about Priestley

• "Joseph Priestley" in Popular Science Monthly, 6 (November 1874)
• "Priestley, Joseph," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Priestly, Joseph," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Priestley, Joseph," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• “Priestley,” in Biographies of Scientific Men (1912)
• "Priestley, Joseph," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)