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Three philosophers (Lavoisier, Priestley and Cavendish), by W. R. Aykroyd

Author:
Aykroyd, W. R (Wallace Ruddell) 1899-  Search this
Author:
Cavendish, Henry 1731-1810  Search this
Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent 1743-1794  Search this
Priestley, Joseph 1733-1804  Search this
Physical description:
xi, 227 pages illustrations, portraits 23 cm
Type:
Biography
Biographies
Date:
1970
1935
Topic:
Chemists  Search this
Chimistes  Search this
Call number:
QD21 .A97 1970
QD21.A97 1970
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_4936
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Herrn Alexander Volta Patrizius und des Raths zu Como ..., Briefe über die entzündbare Luft die aus den Sümpfen entstehet

Author:
Volta, Alessandro 1745-1827  Search this
Campi, Carlo Giuseppe  Search this
Priestley, Joseph 1733-1804  Search this
Donor:
Burndy Library DSI  Search this
Physical description:
[3], 6-162, [2] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 19 cm. (8vo)
Type:
Books
Date:
1778
Topic:
Gases--Analysis--Early works to 1800  Search this
Methane--Early works to 1800  Search this
Call number:
QD121 .V93 G1778
QD121.V93 G1778
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_380527
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The history and present state of electricity, with original experiments, by Joseph Priestley ..

Author:
Priestley, Joseph 1733-1804  Search this
Former owner:
Draper, John William 1811-1882 DSI  Search this
Lente, Frederick Divoux 1832-1883 DSI  Search this
Brown, Thomas b. 1766 DSI  Search this
Everett, Jesse DSI  Search this
Perkins, J. DSI  Search this
Priestley, Joseph 1733-1804 DSI  Search this
Physical description:
2 p. l., xxxii, 712, iii, [7] p. VIII pl. 27 cm
Type:
Early works to 1850
Date:
1769
Topic:
Electricity  Search this
Call number:
QC516 .P95X
QC516.P95X
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_72073
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A bibliography of Joseph Priestley, 1733-1804 [by] Ronald E. Crook

Author:
Crook, Ronald E (Ronald Eric)  Search this
Subject:
Priestley, Joseph 1733-1804 Bibliography  Search this
Physical description:
xiv, 201 p. 26 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
1966
Call number:
Z8713.54 .C94 1966
Z8713.54.C94 1966
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_73130
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The invention of air : a story of science, faith, revolution, and the birth of America / Steven Johnson

Author:
Johnson, Steven 1968-  Search this
Subject:
Priestley, Joseph 1733-1804  Search this
Physical description:
xvi, 254 p. : ill ; 24 cm
Type:
Biography
Place:
Great Britain
Date:
2008
Topic:
Chemists  Search this
Scientists  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_923388
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Apparatus owned and used by Dr. Joseph Priestly, the discoverer of oxygen : now in the collection of Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa. / by Charles F. Himes

Author:
Himes, Charles F (Charles Francis) 1838-1918  Search this
Subject:
Priestley, Joseph 1733-1804  Search this
Physical description:
[11] p., [1] plate ; 17 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
1917
Topic:
Scientific apparatus and instruments  Search this
Chemical apparatus  Search this
Call number:
Q180.55.E65 H56 1917
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_734042
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The history and present state of electricity : with original experiments / by Joseph Priestley ..

Author:
Priestley, Joseph 1733-1804  Search this
Physical description:
2 v., 8 leaves of folded plates : ill. ; 21 cm
Type:
Early works to 1850
Date:
1775
Topic:
Electricity  Search this
Electricity--Experiments  Search this
Call number:
QC517 .P94h 1775
QC517.P94h 1775
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_442701
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A description of a set of charts of biography : comprising the names of persons of the greatest eminence of every class, and shewing by inspection the distance in time in which they preceded or followed each other : with a catalogue of all the names inserted in it, and the dates annexed to them ... / by Joseph Priestley ...

Author:
Priestley, Joseph 1733-1804  Search this
Former owner:
Devereux, Thomas P. DSI  Search this
Physical description:
[4], 62, 4 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 22 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
1804
Topic:
Biography  Search this
Call number:
CT31 .P94 1804
CT31.P94 1804
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_442698
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Directions for impregnating water with fixed air : in order to communicate to it the peculiar spirit and virtues of Pyrmont water, and other mineral waters of a similar nature / by Joseph Priestley ..

Author:
Priestley, Joseph 1733-1804  Search this
Physical description:
[2], [iv], 22, [4] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 21 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
1772
[1772]
Topic:
Mineral waters, Artificial  Search this
Call number:
QD28 .P94 1774
QD28.P94 1774
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_444129
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A treatise on theatres / by George Saunders

Author:
Saunders, George 1762-1839  Search this
Former owner:
Priestley, Joseph 1733-1804 DSI  Search this
Physical description:
[vii]-x, [4], 94 p., XIII leaves of plates (4 folded) : ill., plans ; 30 cm. (4to)
Type:
Books
Date:
1790
Topic:
Theaters--Early works to 1800  Search this
Call number:
NA6820.S3X 1790
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_414137
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Memoir of Priestley : read before the National Institute of France, June 27, 1805 / by M. Cuvier ; translated by C.A. Alexander

Author:
Cuvier, Georges baron 1769-1832  Search this
Alexander, C. A  Search this
Institut national de France  Search this
Smithsonian Institution Board of Regents Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution  Search this
Subject:
Priestley, Joseph 1733-1804  Search this
Physical description:
p. [138]-152 ; 23 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
1850
1859
185-?]
Call number:
Q143.P9 C99
Q143.P9C99
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_404065
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Traité chimique de l'air et du feu / par Charles-Guillaume Scheele ... ; avec une introduction de Torbern Bergmann ... ; ouvrage traduit de l'allemand, par le baron de Dietrich ..

Author:
Scheele, Carl Wilhelm 1742-1786  Search this
Bergman, Torbern 1735-1784  Search this
Dietrich, Philippe-Frédéric baron de 1748-1793  Search this
Priestley, Joseph 1733-1804  Search this
Kirwan, Richard 1733-1812  Search this
Leonhardi, Johann Gottfried 1746-1823  Search this
Donor:
Burndy Library DSI  Search this
Physical description:
2 v. in 1, [1] folded leaf of plates : ill. ; 18 cm. (12mo)
Type:
Early works to 1800
Date:
1781
1785
1781-1785
Topic:
Oxygen  Search this
Phlogiston  Search this
Call number:
QD27 .S384 F1781
QD27.S384 F1781
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_424461
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The Priestley Family Collection : the gift of Mrs. Temple Fay / [text, Charles C. Sellers]

Author:
Sellers, Charles Coleman 1903-  Search this
Fay, Temple Mrs  Search this
Dickinson College  Search this
Subject:
Priestley, Joseph 1733-1804 Catalogs  Search this
Priestley family Catalogs  Search this
Priestley family Genealogy  Search this
Peale, Rembrandt 1778-1860 Joseph Priestley  Search this
Physical description:
19 p. : ill. ; 21 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
1965
Call number:
CS71.P94 S46 1965
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_453471
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Experiments and observations on different kinds of air / by Joseph Priestley ..

Author:
Priestley, Joseph 1733-1804  Search this
Physical description:
3 v., [6] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 21 cm
Type:
Early works to 1800
Date:
1774
1777
1774-1777
Topic:
Chemistry  Search this
Air  Search this
Call number:
QD28 .P94 1774
QD28.P94 1774
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_444128
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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 ..

Author:
Priestley, Joseph 1733-1804  Search this
Subject:
Higgins, Bry (Bryan) 1737?-1820  Search this
Physical description:
[4], 86, [2] p. ; 21 cm
Type:
Early works to 1800
Date:
1775
Topic:
Chemistry  Search this
Air  Search this
Call number:
QD28 .P94 1774
QD28.P94 1774
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_444130
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De geschiedenis en tegenwoordige staat der proefondervindelijke wijsbegeerte / in't Engelsch beschreeven door Joseph Priestly ..

Author:
Priestley, Joseph 1733-1804  Search this
Donor:
Burndy Library DSI  Search this
Physical description:
3 v. : ill. ; 18 cm
Type:
Early works to 1850
Date:
1773
Topic:
Electricity  Search this
Call number:
QC517 .P94h D1773
QC517.P94h D1773
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_359558
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A familiar introduction to the study of electricity / by Joseph Priestley ..

Author:
Priestley, Joseph 1733-1804  Search this
Donor:
Burndy Library DSI  Search this
Physical description:
85, [3] p., [5] folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm. (8vo)
Type:
Early works to 1850
Date:
1777
Topic:
Electricity  Search this
Call number:
QC517 .P94 1777
QC517.P94 1777
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_359561
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A familiar introduction to the study of electricity / by Joseph Priestley ..

Author:
Priestley, Joseph 1733-1804  Search this
Donor:
Burndy Library DSI  Search this
Physical description:
85, [3] p., [5] folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm. (8vo)
Type:
Early works to 1850
Date:
1769
Topic:
Electricity  Search this
Call number:
QC517 .P94 1769
QC517.P94 1769
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_359556
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Histoire de l'électricité / traduite de l'anglois de Joseph Priestley, avec des notes critiques ; ouvrage enrichi de figures en tailledouce

Author:
Priestley, Joseph 1733-1804  Search this
Nollet abbé (Jean Antoine) 1700-1770  Search this
Brisson, Mathurin-Jacques 1723-1806  Search this
Donor:
Burndy Library DSI  Search this
Physical description:
3 v., [9] folded leaves of plates : ill. ; 17 cm. (12mo)
Type:
Early works to 1850
Date:
1771
Topic:
Electricity  Search this
Call number:
QC517 .P94h F1771
QC517.P94h F1771
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_359564
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Directions for impregnating water with fixed air : in order to communicate to it the peculiar spirit and virtues of Pyrmont water, and other mineral waters of a similar nature / by Joseph Priestley ..

Author:
Priestley, Joseph 1733-1804  Search this
Donor:
Burndy Library DSI  Search this
Physical description:
[2], iii, [1], 22 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 19 cm. (8vo)
Type:
Early works to 1800
Date:
1772
Topic:
Chemistry  Search this
Air--Experiments  Search this
Mineral waters, Artificial  Search this
Call number:
QD28 .P94 1772
QD28.P94 1772
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_359559

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