Results tagged “The Invention of Air”

In Steven Johnson’s The Invention of Air: A Story of Science, Faith, Revolution, and the Birth of America, the “hot hand” in question is that of Joseph Priestley. Something of a forgotten man now (certainly in terms of his role in the American Revolution), Priestley could be considered the quintessential Enlightenment thinker, in much the same way that da Vinci is the embodiment of the “Renaissance man.”