Joseph Priestley: Docter Phlogiston or Reverend Oxygen?
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.
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Clare College, Cambridge, CB2 1TL, UK. pf10006@cam.ac.uk
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