Joseph Priestley was one of the most famous scientists of the 18th Century. His friend, Benjamin Franklin, recommended him to England's Royal Society. Priestley was also a minister who played a key role in the founding of the Unitarian Church. He was a radical thinker who eventually became one of the most hated men in England; a mob burned down his house in Birmingham. But when he emigrated to the newly formed United States, he was welcomed by then President John Adams and Thomas Jefferson.

And yet very few people in America today know who Joseph Priestley was. Steven Johnson set out to change that in his book The Invention of Air: A Story of Science, Faith, Revolution, and the Birth of America (Riverhead Book, 2008).

A History of 18th Century Science, Religion and Politics

Johnson’s book illuminates the life of Joseph Priestley, but it is not a biography. Rather, it is treatise on how ideas come into being, and how those ideas in turn can influence broader scientific, religious, and political outcomes.

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