Dear Britney, Educated for the ministry or preacher joseph priestley wrote books and articles on theology, education, metaphysics, and politics.He is well known for his religious views, although he is remembered for the discovery of oxygen. Joseph is the eldest son of a yorkshire cloth dresser, jonas priestly.He spent much of his younger life with an aunt who was a propertied widow. Joseph priestley had an affinity for learning. he was encouraged to study ministry. Joseph attended a dissenting academy at Daventry Northamptonshire. His interest in science intensified when he came across an american scientist/statesman. He published more than a dozen articles in the royal societies. Priestly obtained a colorless gas on August 1, 1774. …show more content…
His electric experiments introduced him a few interest from different scientists, and in 1766 he was elected to the Royal …show more content…
From energy he became his attention to chemistry, reading the houses of gases. inside only some years he advanced on the preceding information of gas chemistry, which identified best three "airs" (air, carbon dioxide, and hydrogen), via adding ten new ones, along with oxygen, nitric oxide, nitrous oxide, hydrogen chloride, ammonia, sulfur dioxide, silicon tetrafluoride, nitrogen, and carbon monoxide. He summarized his early outcomes in an essay of 1772, "On extraordinary types of Air," published in the Philosophical Transactions. The essay stuck the eye of Lavoisier, who furnished the theoretical framework with which to make sense of Priestley 's