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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 188. Chapters: Joseph Priestley, Joseph Widney, Bill Ayers, Mortimer J. Adler, James Bryant Conant, Booker T. Washington, Michelle Rhee, Michael Dukakis, Leon Eisenberg, Brother Blue, Loren Eiseley, Philipp Fehl, Andrew Dickson White, Joseph Opala, Grace Raymond Hebard, Jeffrey R. Holland, Joshua Chamberlain, Matthew Fontaine Maury, Nicholas A. Peppas, Bill Dodd, William Wilson Talcott, Edward Cutbush, Jill Biden, Neil deGrasse Tyson, William John Cooper, Carola B. Eisenberg, Dudley Leavitt (publisher), Jock Scott, Bill Nye, Lillian Moller Gilbreth, Joel Swerdlow, List of Institute Professors at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Kathy Kelly, Robert Burns Woodward, Gilbert Seldes, Alain LeRoy Locke, Laurence F. Johnson, Robert Brustein, Jan Karski, Richard Marius, Kenneth Kaushansky, Richard A. Cash, N. B. Hardeman, Sharan Merriam, Samuel L. Stanley, Shi Yan Ming, Ken Coon. Excerpt: Joseph Priestley, FRS (13 March 1733 (O.S.) - 6 February 1804) was an 18th-century English theologian, Dissenting clergyman, natural philosopher, chemist, educator, and political theorist who published over 150 works. He is usually credited with the discovery of oxygen, having isolated it in its gaseous state, although Carl Wilhelm Scheele and Antoine Lavoisier also have a claim to the discovery. During his lifetime, Priestley's considerable scientific reputation rested on his invention of soda water, his writings on electricity, and his discovery of several "airs" (gases), the most famous being what Priestley dubbed "dephlogisticated air" (oxygen). However, Priestley's determination to defend phlogiston theory and to reject what would become the chemical revolution eventually left him isolated within the scientific community. Priestley's science was integral to his theology, and he consistently tried to fuse Enlightenment rationalism with...
