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Joseph Priestley's Experiments
www.nsta.org/energy/find/luminaries

Autobiography of Joseph Priestley.
Jack Lindsay (introduction). Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1971.

The Enlightenment of Joseph Priestley: A Study of His Life and Works from 1733 to 1773
Robert E. Schofield. Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998.

Joseph Priestley: A Comet in the System.
John Ruskin Clark. Friends of Joseph Priestley House, Incorporated, 1994.

Joseph Priestley, Scientist, Theologian, and Metaphysician: A Symposium Celebrating the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Discovery of Oxygen.
Erwin N. Hiebert, Robert E. Schofield, Lester Kieft, Aaron John Ihde, Bennett R. Willeford (editor). Bucknell University Press, 1990.

Motion Toward Perfection: The Achievement of Joseph Priestley.
A. Truman Schwartz and John G. McEvoy (editors). Unitarian Universalist Association, 1990.

Science as Public Culture: Chemistry and Enlightenment in Britain, 1760-1820.
Jan Golinski, Cambridge University Press, 1999.

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