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Joseph Priestley

1733–1804

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Works by Joseph Priestley

  • Joseph Priestley 1762. A Course of Lectures on the Theory of Language and Universal Grammar.The Theological and Miscellaneous Works of Joseph Priestley Vol. 23. (Ed. by J. T. Rutt.) London, 1817–31. (Hereafter referred to asWorks.)

  • Joseph Priestley 1767. The History and Present State of Electricity, with Original Experiments.Works, Vol. 25.

  • 1769.A Familiar Introduction to the Study of Electricity. London, Johnson & Payne.

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  • Joseph Priestley 1771. An Essay on the First Principles of Government.Works, Vol. 22.

  • Joseph Priestley 1775. An Examination of Dr Reid's Inquiry into the Human Mind ...Works, Vol. 3.

  • Joseph Priestley 1777. A Course of Lectures on Oratory and Criticism.Works, Vol. 23.

  • Joseph Priestley 1780. Miscellaneous Observations relating to Education; An Essay on a course of Liberal Education for Civil and Active Life; ... Lectures on the Study of History; ... Lectures on the Laws of England.Works, Vol. 25.

  • Joseph Priestley 1782. The Doctrine of Philosophic Necessity Illustrated.Works, Vol. 3.

  • Joseph Priestley 1782. The Doctrine of Philosophic Necessity Illustrated.Works, Vol. 3.

  • Joseph Priestley 1787. A Letter to the Right Honorable William Pitt ...Works, Vol. 19.

  • Joseph Priestley 1790a. Introductory Essays to Hartley's Theory of the Human Mind.Works, Vol. 3.

  • Joseph Priestley 1790b. Reflections on Death ...Works, Vol. 15.

  • Joseph Priestley 1791a. The Proper Objects of Education in the Present State of the World.Works, Vol. 15.

  • Joseph Priestley 1791b. A Particular Attention to the Instruction of the Young Recommended in a Discourse Delivered at the Gravel-Pit Meeting, in Hackney ...Works, Vol. 15.

  • Joseph Priestley 1794. Preface and Dedication to Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy.Works, Vol. 25.

  • Joseph Priestley 1798. The Rudiments of English Grammar.Works, Vol. 23.

  • Joseph Priestley 1803. Lectures on History and General Policy (Philadelphia, 1803).Works, Vol. 24.

  • 1970.Autobiography of Joseph Priestley (Ed. by J. Lindsay.) Bath, United Kingdom, Adams & Dart.

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Works about Joseph Priestley

  • Aikin, L. 1823.Memoir of John Aikin M.D. London, Baldwin, Cradock & Joy. 2 vols.

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  • . (ed.). 1825.The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld. London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green. 2 vols.

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  • Armytage, W. H. G. 1967–68. ‘The Lunar Society and its Contributions to Education.’University of Birmingham Historical Journal (Birmingham, United Kingdom), Vol. 5, pp. 65–78.

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  • Carpenter, L. 1820.Principles of Education. London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown.

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  • Carpenter, R. L. (1842).Memoir of the Rev. Lant Carpenter LL.D. London, Green.

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  • Enfield, W. 1808.The Speaker, London, Joseph Johnson.

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  • Gibbs, F. W. 1965.Joseph Priestley: Adventurer in Science and Chamption of Truth. London, Nelson.

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  • Hartley, D. 1976.Observations on Man. New York, Delmar.

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  • Hazlitt, W. 1904. The Late Dr Priestley.The Collected Works of Joseph Priestley. Vol. 12. (Ed. by A. R. Waller and A. Glover.), pp. 357–60. London, Dent.

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  • Lincoln, A. 1971.Some Political and Social Ideas of English Dissent, 1763–1800. New York, Octagon Books, 1971.

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  • Martineau, H. 1877.Autobiography. Vol. 1. London, Smith, Elder & Co.

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  • Porter, R. 1990.English Society in the Eighteenth Century. Harmondsworth, United Kingdom, Penguin Books.

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  • Schofield, R. E. (1963)The Lunar Society of Birmingham: a Social History of Provincial Science and Industry in Eighteenth Century England. Oxford, United Kingdom, Oxford University Press.

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  • Watts, R. E. 1986. Manchester College and Education 1786–1853. In: B. Smith (ed.).Truth, Liberty and Religion, pp. 79–110. Oxford, United Kingdom, Manchester College.

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  • . 1989. ‘Knowledge Is Power — Unitarians, Gender and Education in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries.’Gender and Education (Abingdon, United Kingdom, Carfax), Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 35–50.

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Much of this profile is drawn from the unpublished Ph.D. thesis: Watts, R.E.The Unitarian Contribution to Education in England from the Late Eighteenth Century to 1853. University of Leicester, 1987.

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Watts, R. Joseph Priestley. Prospects 24, 343–353 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02199025

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