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A biography of Joseph Priestly, discoverer of oxygen and a remarkably creative experimentalist.
Despite a interesting enough subject matter, it read mostly like a decent undergraduate paper.
Not as good as Johnson's book on Snow and the cholera epidemic (The Ghost Map).
Obviously a fascinating and influential figure, but this biography falls flat
I never know about Priestly impact on American history. informative read