Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air

MP3 Audio CD. Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air contains six volumes issued by the 18th century English polymath Joseph Priestley which documents a run of his tests on "airs" or vapors, much especially his exploration of oxygen gas which he termed "dephlogisticated air".

These tests aided to rescind the final traces of the theory of four essential features; as one of the first biographers states: "taken collectively, [Priestley] did more than those of any one of his contemporaries to uproot and destroy the only generalisation by which his immediate predecessors had sought to group and connect the phenomena of chemistry", yet "he was wholly unable to perceive this fact." Joseph?s experiment on "airs" is not simply categorized. As historian of science Simon Schaffer says, it "has been seen as a branch of physics, or chemistry, or natural philosopholy poption." Also, the works were both a scientific and a political venture for Joseph; he disagreed in them that science might devastate "undue and usurped authority," drafting that the politics has "reason to tremble even at an air pump or an electrical machine."

Joseph Priestley FRS was an 18th century British theologian, English Dissenters clergyman, natural philosopher, chemist, ingenious grammarian, multi-subject professor, and liberal political theorist who wrote more than 150 books.

He has classically been deferred with the experimentation of oxygen, having outlying it in its gaseous state, though Carl Wilhelm Scheele and Antoine Lavoisier also have substantial assertions to the finding.

Throughout his days, Joseph?s appreciable scientific notoriety is complacent on his contrivance of soda water, his works on electricity, and his experimentation of countless "airs" (gases), the best known being what Joseph called "dephlogisticated air" (oxygen).