Chemists -- England -- Biography; Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804
D
Darwin, Erasmus, his connection with the Birmingham Lunar Society, 94,
95.
Daventry Academy, 18.
Dephlogisticated Air (Oxygen), Priestley’s discovery of, 184, 192 _et
seq._
_Doctrine of Phlogiston Established_, Priestley’s last scientific
work, 162.
E
Edgeworth, Richard Lovell, his account of the Lunar Society, 96.
Electricity, History of, Priestley’s, 63.
Enfield, William, 33, 43.
Eudiometry, 182, 207, 208.
Eyres, William, of Warrington, 38.
F
Faujar St Fond, his visits to Priestley, 103.
Fieldhead, 3.
Fluor Acid Air, 198.
Forster, John Reinhold, 33, 81.
Franklin Benjamin, 63, 91, 92;
his opinion of Priestley, 93.
G
Galton, Samuel, 94, 96.
Gases, diffusion of, 202.
“General History of the Christian Church to the Fall of the Western
Empire,” 109, 163.
Gordon, Rev. Alexander, his account of Priestley as a theologian, 109.
H
Harrison, Frederic, on Priestley, 1.
Horner, Leonard, his account of the Lunar Society, 102.
Hutton, Miss, her account of Priestley as a preacher, 105.
I
India-rubber, its use for erasing lead-pencil marks, 72.
J
“Jesus and Socrates compared,” Priestley’s Essay, 163.
K
Keighley, Mrs Sarah, 3, 8, 12.
Keir, Captain, 94, 127.
Kippis, Dr Andrew, 24, 26.
Kirwan, Richard, 215, 223.
L
Lavoisier, his relations to the discovery of oxygen, 195, 196, 198,
201, 215.
“Letters to a Philosophical Unbeliever,” Priestley’s, 85.
Lindsey, Theophilus, his friendship for Priestley, 73, 106.
Lunar Society of Birmingham, 94 _et seq._
M
Magellan, or Magalhæns, 84, 205.
Marine Acid Air (Hydrogen Chloride), Priestley’s discovery of, 184.
“Melioration of Air, by the Growth of Plants,” Priestley’s paper on,
208.
N
Nitrosulphuric Acid, discovery of, 204.
Nitrous Air (Nitric Oxide), Priestley’s work on, 181;
his application of it to Eudiometry, 182;
nature of, 221.
Nitrous Acid, discovery of, 182;
nature of, 221.
O
Oxygen, Priestley’s discovery of, 184, 192 _et seq._
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