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The Invention of Air: A Story Of Science, Faith, Revolution, And The Birth Of America

By Steven Johnson

Book information

Publisher
Riverhead Books
Year
2009
ISBN
9781594484018, 1594484015
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
8 MB (8571255 bytes)
Pages
276\271
Time added
2019-07-16 01:08:38
-- 1733-1804;Chemists -- Great Britain -- BiographJosephJoseph (Naturwissenschaftler);Chemists -- EnglandPriestley

Description

In The Invention of Air, national bestselling author Steven Johnson tells the fascinating story of Joseph Priestley—scientist and theologian, protégé of Benjamin Franklin, friend of Thomas Jefferson—an eighteenth-century radical thinker who played pivotal roles in the invention of ecosystem science, the discovery of oxygen, the uses of oxygen, scientific experimentation, the founding of the Unitarian Church, and the intellectual development of the United States. As he did so masterfully in The Ghost Map, Steven Johnson uses a dramatic historical story to explore themes that have long engaged him: innovative strategies, intellectual models, and the way new ideas emerge and spread, and the environments that foster these breakthroughs.

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