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In 1794, Joseph Priestley – amateur scientist, ordained minister and radical thinker – set sail for America to escape persecution. Stephen Johnson tells his incredible story: the discovery of oxygen, the invention of a science, the founding of a church, and, with the great minds of his time, the development of the United States itself. But Priestley’s revolutionary ideas put him in terrible danger. Johnson uses the progress of Priestley and his colleagues not merely to describe the wonder of dis

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Author

Stephen T Johnson

Publisher

Penguin Books Ltd : [distributor] Penguin Books Ltd

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780141044354

Category

biography

Subjects

Science, Chemistry, Memoir

Updated

2026-03-25