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BIOGRAPHIES OF SCIENTIFIC MEN
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of His Time—Composition of Water—A Millionaire—His Evening Walk—Battersea Rise House—Stories about Cavendish—Cavendish and the Doctrine of Stahl—Atmospheric Gases—Discovery of Hydrogen—His Library—His Death and Burial—His Honours—Thomson, Lodge, Rayleigh, and Strutt on Cavendish—Galileo and the Church |
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| Birth and Parentage—Schooldays—Became a Calvinistic Minister—Heterodoxy—Tutor at a Dissenting Academy—Marriage—A History of Electricity—F.R.S.—LL.D.—Pneumatic Chemistry—Copley Medal—Appointed Librarian to Lord Shelburne—Visited France, Germany, and Holland—Unitarian Minister in Birmingham—America and the War of Independence—French Revolution—Writings and Speeches against the Established Church—Burke and Priestley—Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France—Tom Paine's Rights of Man—Mackintosh's Vindiciæ Galliæ—His Letters to Mr Burke—Burning of Chapels and Priestley's House—"Priestley Riots"—Priestley Arrived in London—Manuscripts Destroyed—Gillray's Cartoon—Pictures in Musée Wiertz, Brussels—Carlyle on the Priestley Riots—Elected a Member of the French Assemblée Nationale—Emigrated to America—Received £2000 Compensation—Posthumous Honours—His Books—Death and Burial—Discoverer of Oxygen—Phlogistic Theory—Proved Air to be a Mixture—CO2 and other Gases—Ammonia Gas—Prejudiced by Stahl's Doctrine | 44 |
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| Birth and Parentage—His Father's Garden—School at Wexico—Entered the University of Lund—Studied under Stobœus—University of Upsala—His Poverty—Celsius and Linnæus—His Classification—The "Artificial System"—The "Natural System" of De Candolle—Binomial System of Nomenclature—Systema Naturæ—Fixity of Species—Rousseau on Botany—Lectureship at Upsala—Explored in Lapland—His Hardships—Baron Reuterholm—Visited Holland—M.D. of Leyden—Introduced to Boërhaave, Burmann, and Cliffort—Fundamenta Botanica and Bibliotheca Botanica—Visited England—Genera Plantarum—Homology—Philosophia Botanica—Floral Clock—Financial Difficulties—Hughes and Wireless Telegraphy—His Marriage—Elected President of the Royal Academy of Sweden—Professorship at Upsala—Rector of Same—Honours—Death | 62 |
