Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Priestley” in entry engineering of Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History:
... century a great intellectual revival took place.
In literature appeared Voltaire, Rousseau, Kant, Hume, and Goethe.
In pure science there came Laplace, Cavendish, Lavoisier, Linnaeus, Berzelius, Priestley , Count Rumford, James Watt, and Dr. Franklin.
The last three were among the earliest to bring about a union of pure and applied science.
Franklin immediately applied his discovery that frictional...
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H. D. Priestley | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
William Priestley | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes |
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