INDEX
[A] [B] [C] [D] [E] [F] [G] [H] [I] [J] [K] [L] [M] [N] [O] [P] Q [R] [S] [T] U [V] [W] X Y Z
A Aikin, Anna Lætitia, [33], [43]; her poem Corsica, [70], [75]. Aikin, John, [32], [33], [36], [121]. Aikin, Lucy, [38]. Air, Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of, Priestley’s treatise on, [77], [103], [167] et seq. Air, Fixed, [175], [176]; Priestley’s view of its nature, [220]. Air, Inflammable, [179], [220]. Alkaline Air (Ammonia), Priestley’s isolation of, [185]; its properties, [186]; decomposition of by electricity, [210]; nature of, [221]. Ammonia Gas, Priestley’s discovery of, [185]; its properties, [186]. Ammonium Sesquicarbonate, Synthesis of, by Priestley, [186].
B Barbauld, Mrs (Anna Lætitia Aikin), [33], [160]. Belloc, Madame, account of the Priestleys, [2]; of the times of Priestley, [5]; her account of Mrs Priestley, [49]. Bewley, Richard, his mephitic julep, [79]. Birmingham Riots of 1791, [120] et seq. Bolton, H. Carrington, his account of the Lunar Society, [96]. Boulton, Matthew, founds the Lunar Society of Birmingham, [94]. Boyle, Robert, his recognition that different elastic fluids exist, [174]. Bright, Henry A., his account of the Warrington Academy, [34]. Burke, Edmund, his denunciation of Priestley, [147].
C Canton, John, his school, [9], [62]. “Conversion of Water into Air, Seeming,” Priestley’s work on, [216]. Corruptions of Christianity, Priestley’s, [106].
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.
P Paoli, Pascal, [70] et seq. Parr, Dr Samuel, [113], [144]. Phlogisticated Air (Nitrogen), Priestley’s theory of its constitution, [220]. Phlogiston, [98], [100], [162], [214], [222]. Pneumatic Trough, the, [176]. Price, Dr Richard, [61]. Pringle, Sir John, address on award of Copley Medal to Priestley, [80]. Priestley, Jonas, father of Joseph Priestley, [2]. Priestley, Joseph, his birth, [1]; ancestry, [2]; education, [8]; becomes an Arminian, [14]; goes to Daventry, [17]; his studies there, [18]; begins his Institutes of Natural and Revealed Religion, [20], [68]; his “thorn in the flesh,” [21]; goes to Needham, [22]; his privations there, [23]; goes to Nantwich, [30]; starts a school, [31]; removes to Warrington, [32]; marries, [47]; is ordained, [49]; his English Grammar, [32], [51]; Essay on Education, [53]; Lectures on History and General Policy, [55]; his Chart of Biography, [60]; is made Doctor of Laws of Edinburgh, [60]; publishes his History and Present State of Electricity, [64]; goes to Leeds, [66]; becomes a Unitarian, [69]; Theory and Practice of Perspective, [72]; History of Discoveries Relating to Vision, Light and Colours, [73]; his literary characteristics, [74]; his invention of soda-water, [77] et seq.; is awarded the Copley Medal, [80]; becomes librarian to Lord Shelburne, [82]; visits the continent, [84]; his Disquisitions relating to Matter and Spirit, [86]; Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air, [77], [103]; leaves Lord Shelburne, [88]; removes to Birmingham, [93]; his merits as a preacher, [105]; his History of the Corruptions of Christianity, [106]; his merits as a theologian, [109]; his love of literature, [111]; his physical characteristics, [114]; his habits of life, [114]; his mental characteristics, [117]; destruction of his house at Birmingham, [120] et seq.; his address to the inhabitants of Birmingham, [134]; his account of the riots, [143]; succeeds Dr Price as minister at Hackney, [146]; withdraws from the Royal Society, [147]; determines to leave the country, [149]; his arrival in New York, [155]; settles in Northumberland, [155]; death of Mrs Priestley, [158]; his last days, [162]; his Doctrine of Phlogiston Established, [162]; his death, [164]. Priestley, Timothy, [2], [7].
R Respiration, and the use of the Blood, Priestley’s paper on, [203]. Robinson, Henry Crabb, his account of Mrs Barbauld, [46]. Russell, Martha, her account of the Birmingham Riots of 1791, [128]. Russell, William, [105], [126], [149].
S Sal Ammoniac, Synthesis of, by Priestley, [186]. Scheele, an independent discoverer of Oxygen, [206]; discovers Chlorine, [211]. Schimmelpenninck’s, Mrs, account of Priestley, [96]. Seddon, John, [34], [42]. Shelburne, Lord (Marquis of Lansdowne), [82]. Silicon Fluoride, Priestley’s preparation of, [198]; its decomposition by water, [199]. Soda-water, invention of, [77]. Sound in Air, [211]. Sozzini, Fausto, [69], [108]. Stahl, author of the hypothesis of phlogiston, [222]. Sulphur dioxide (Vitriolic Acid Air), Priestley’s discovery of, [190]. Sulphurated inflammable air (sulphuretted hydrogen), Priestley’s isolation of, [218]. Sulphuretted hydrogen, Priestley’s isolation of, [218].
T Taylor, Dr John, of Norwich, [36]. Theological Repository, the, [68], [105]. Turner, Matthew, teacher of chemistry at the Warrington Academy, [51], [76].
V Vegetation, relation of to Air, Priestley’s discovery of, [178], [208]. Vitriolic Acid Air (sulphur dioxide), Priestley’s isolation of, [189].
W Warrington Academy, the, [33] et seq. Water Controversy, the, [97]. Watt, James, his connection with the Lunar Society, [94]; discovery of Composition of Water, [97]. Wedgwood, Josiah, his friendship for Priestley, [55], [83], [137]. Wilkes and Liberty, Priestley’s pamphlet on, [73], [152]. Wilkinson, John, [48], [138]. Wilkinson, Mary (Mrs Priestley), [49], [158]; Madame Belloc’s account of her, [49]. Withering, Dr, [94], [101], [148]. Wordsworth, William, his admiration of Mrs Barbauld’s literary work, [46].
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