Phlogiston Theory Collection

Joseph Priestley, caricature C015 / 6707
Joseph Priestley (1733-1804). Caricature of the British chemist and clergyman Joseph Priestley. Priestly is best known as the discoverer of oxygen

Joseph Priestley, British chemist
Joseph Priestley (1733-1804), British chemist and clergyman. Best known as the discoverer of oxygen, Priestley carried out a range of research into the composition and nature of air

Portrait of Priestley & his equipment
Portrait of Joseph Priestley an English chemist who was born in 1733 and died in 1804. Priestly is given credit for the isolation of oxygen although he never recognized it as such & continued to

Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian scientist
A reproduction of a portrait of Russian scientist Mikhail Lomonosov

Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian polymath
Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov (1711-1765), Russian polymath. Born in a remote fishing village, Lomonosov went to Moscow to gain his education, later studying in St Petersburg, and in Germany

Joseph Priestley, English chemist
Joseph Priestley (1733-1804). Historical artwork of the English chemist Joseph Priestley wrote books on optics and electricity but is best remembered for discovering a number of new gases including

Lavoisier respiration experiment, 1770s
Lavoisier respiration experiment, 18th century. French chemist Antoine Lavoisier (1743-1794) in his laboratory with his wife and his assistants

Table from Bechers Opuscula chymica (17th century). Johann Joachaim Becher (1635-1682) was a German physician and alchemist

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