English chemist, theologian, educator, and political theorist (1733–1804)

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Joseph Priestley. Stipple engraving by W. Nutter, 1789, after J. Hazlitt.

Joseph Priestley. Line engraving.

Fairhill, the house of Joseph Priestley in Sparkbrook, Birmingham, after its destruction by rioters. Aquatint by W. Ellis after P.H. Witton, 1792.

Joseph Priestley (above) and Antoine Lavoisier (below) Line engraving by R. Caldwall, 1801, after J. Opie and J.-L. David.

Adam Walker, a natural philosopher, performing scientific experiments. Coloured etching after J. Gillray, 1796.

Joseph Priestley. Stipple engraving by Holl.

Joseph Priestley. Line engraving by W. Angus.

Joseph Priestley. Line engraving, 1807.

Joseph Priestley. Stipple engraving by A. Tardieu after himself.

Joseph Priestley. Line engraving, 1782.

Joseph Priestley. Wood engraving by [F.], 1874, after J. F. Williamson.

The republican solidarity of Joseph Priestley and Thomas Paine; indicated by the grinning devil that links them. Etching by I. Cruikshank, 1792.

Joseph Priestley, man of science, 1733-1804 : an iconography of a great Yorkshireman / John McLachlan.

Joseph Priestley. Line engraving by W. Bromley, 1791.

The story of a lifetime / by Lady Priestley.

Experiments and observations on different kinds of air, and other branches of natural philosophy, connected with the subject ... / being the former six volumes abridged and methodized, with many additions. By Joseph Priestley.

Farther experiments relating to the decomposition of dephlogisticated and inflammable air. Read April 7, 1791 / by Joseph Priestley.

Philosophical empiricism : containing remarks on a charge of plagiarism respecting Dr. H----s, interspersed with various observations relating to different kinds of air / by Joseph Priestley.

A slight sketch of the controversy between Dr. Priestley and his opponents on the subject of his Disquisitions on matter and spirit / [Anon].

Heads of lectures on a course of experimental philosophy, particularly including chemistry, delivered at the new college in Hackney / by Joseph Priestley.

The discovery of oxygen, part 1. : experiments / by Joseph Priestley, LL.D. (1775).

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Joseph Priestley

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Farther experiments relating to the decomposition of dephlogisticated and inflammable air. Read April 7, 1791 / by Joseph Priestley.

Philosophical empiricism : containing remarks on a charge of plagiarism respecting Dr. H----s, interspersed with various observations relating to different kinds of air / by Joseph Priestley.

A slight sketch of the controversy between Dr. Priestley and his opponents on the subject of his Disquisitions on matter and spirit / [Anon].

Heads of lectures on a course of experimental philosophy, particularly including chemistry, delivered at the new college in Hackney / by Joseph Priestley.

The discovery of oxygen, part 1. : experiments / by Joseph Priestley, LL.D. (1775).

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Joseph Priestley

Images from the collections

Images by Joseph Priestley

Images featuring Joseph Priestley

Works from the collections

Farther experiments relating to the decomposition of dephlogisticated and inflammable air. Read April 7, 1791 / by Joseph Priestley.

Philosophical empiricism : containing remarks on a charge of plagiarism respecting Dr. H----s, interspersed with various observations relating to different kinds of air / by Joseph Priestley.

A slight sketch of the controversy between Dr. Priestley and his opponents on the subject of his Disquisitions on matter and spirit / [Anon].

Heads of lectures on a course of experimental philosophy, particularly including chemistry, delivered at the new college in Hackney / by Joseph Priestley.

The discovery of oxygen, part 1. : experiments / by Joseph Priestley, LL.D. (1775).

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