The invention of air : a story of science, faith, revolution, and the birth of America /
Recounts the story of Joseph Priestley--scientist and theologian, protégé of Benjamin Franklin--an 18th-century radical thinker who played pivotal roles in the invention of ecosystem science, the founding of the Unitarian Church, and the intellectual development of the U.S.
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New York :
Riverhead Books,
2008.
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Table of Contents:
- The vortex
- The electricians
- Rose and nightshade
- Intermezzo : an island of coal
- The wild gas
- A comet in the system.