"Joseph priestley" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... was not forthcoming until about a century after the publication of Mayow's work. The experiments which furnished the proof were rendered possible by a notable discovery made on the 1st of August 1774, by the celebrated Joseph Priestley. ...
— The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry • M. M. Pattison Muir
... Mitchill during the next three decades. He was now thirty-five years old, a sort of universal eccentric genius, already known as philosopher, scientist, teacher, and critic, a professor in Columbia, the friend of Joseph Priestley, the author of scientific essays, and the first in America to make mineralogical explorations. Perhaps if he had worked in fewer fields he might have won greater renown, making his name familiar to the general student of our own time; but he belonged to an order of intellect ...
— A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 • DeAlva Stanwood Alexander |
