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Joseph Priestley, Scientist, Theologian, and Metaphysician: A Symposium Celebrating the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Discovery of Oxygen by Joseph Priestley in 1774 ; Symposium Held During the 9. Middle Atlantic Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society
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JOSEPH PRIESTLEY Theologian, and Metaphysician

Scientist,

Erwin N. Hiebert, Aaron J. Hide and Robert E. Schofield

Edited by Lester Kieft and Bennett R.

Vi iJleford, Jr.

)

$ 12.00

Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Theologian, and Metaphysician

A

Symposium Celebrating the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Discovery of Oxygen by Joseph Priestley in 1774 by Erwin N. Hiebert,

Aaron

Ihde, and

J.

Robert E. Schofield Edited by Lester Kieft

and Bennett R. Willeford,

Neither Priestley’s scientific,

Jr.

life-style

nor his

philosophical, theological, or

political

thought

He was

a

is

easily characterized.

competent

scientist, a skilled

and imaginative experimentalist, but a cautious and conservative theorist. Priestley s

firmly

scientific

rooted

religion.

He

in

philosophy

his

philosophy

was of

understood revealed religion

and natural science to be reciprocating branches of knowledge; he was able to integrate

his

conception

of

revealed

religion with his fervent belief in scientific

materialism and

strict causality.

An

expository account of Priestley’s life as it pertains to his religion and his religious writings

is

attempted.

(Continued on back flap

£6.00

BOSTON PUBL1

LIBRARY

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Digitized by the Internet Archive in

2016 with funding from

China-America

Digital

Academic

Library

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JOSEPH PRIESTLEY Theologian, and Metaphysician

Scientist,

JOSEPH PRIESTLEY Theologian, and Metaphysician

Scientist,

Symposium Celebrating the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Discovery of Oxygen by Joseph Priestley in 1774

A

Erwin N. Hiebert, Harvard University Aaron J. Ihde, University of Wisconsin Robert E. Schofield, Iowa State University

Edited by Lester Kieft and Bennett R. Willeford, Bucknell University

Lewisburg

BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS London: Associated University Presses

Jr.,

©

1980 by Associated University

Presses, Inc.

Associated University Presses, Inc.

New

Cranbury,

Jersey

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Associated University Presses

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Joseph Priestley Symposium, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., 1974. Joseph Priestley, scientist, theologian, and metaphysician.

Symposium

held during the ninth Middle Atlantic regional meeting of the Chemical Society in Wilkes Barre, Pa., Apr. 23-26, 1974.

American

Includes bibliographical references. 1

gresses.

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