Joseph Priestley on This Day in History

This Day in History: Joseph Priestley died on this day in 1804. This period of history had so many great minds, many who have long since been forgotten. Priestley is probably best known for discovering oxygen, but he was also a theologian, natural philosopher (scientist), chemist, innovative grammarian, educator, and political theorist who published over 150 works. He was the first to discover that electrical force followed an inverse-square law. He also popularized Unitarianism as he was big on adding rationalism to Christianity. He wrote once: "The doctrine of Transubstantiation implies a physical impossibility, whereas that of the Trinity...implies a mathematical one; and to this only we usually give the name of contradiction." He was friends with Thomas Jefferson who held similar views.

See also Joseph Priestley on the Trinity

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