title: Joseph Priestley: Docter Phlogiston or Reverend Oxygen?
abstract: In propaganda material, people are often presented in black-and-white terms as either a villain or a hero. Although Joseph Priestley is denigrated for believing in the discredited substance phlogiston, he is also celebrated for discovering oxygen.
authors: Clare College, Cambridge, CB2 1TL, UK. pf10006@cam.ac.uk
authors: Patricia
authors: P
authors: Fara
mesh_terms: D002621:Chemistry / Q000266:history*; D004739:England; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D010100:Oxygen / Q000266:history*; D012106:Research / Q000266:history
chemical_list: D010100:Oxygen