The Priestley Stone Traditional Geocache
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This cache is located on the island between Sunbury and Northumberland. The cache is located somewhere near the rock honoring Joseph Priestly
Joseph Priestley (March 13, 1733 (old style)–February 8, 1804) was a British natural philosopher, Dissenting clergyman, political theorist, theologian, and educator. He is usually credited with the discovery of oxygen gas.[2][3]
A member of marginalized religious groups throughout his life and a proponent of what was called "rational Dissent," Priestley advocated religious toleration and equal rights for Dissenters. He argued for extensive civil rights, believing that individuals could bring about progress and eventually the Millennium; he was the foremost British expounder of providentialism.[4] Priestley also made significant contributions to education, including the publishing, among other things, of a seminal work on English grammar. In his most lasting contributions to education, he argued for the benefits of a liberal arts education and of the value of the study of modern history.
In his metaphysical works, Priestley "attempt[ed] to combine theism, materialism, and determinism," a project that has been called "audacious and original."[5] Because many of Priestley's texts were written during the French Revolution, they aroused public and governmental suspicion; he was eventually forced to flee to the United States after a mob burned down his home and church in 1791.
Throughout his life, Priestley was known not only as a political and theological controversialist but also as a natural philosopher. His scientific reputation rested on his invention of soda water, his writings on electricity and his discovery of several "airs" (gases), the most famous being what Priestley named "dephlogisticated air" (oxygen). But Priestley's determination to reject Lavoisier's "new chemistry" and to cling to phlogiston theory left him isolated within the scientific community. Priestley's science was never divorced from his religion and he consistently tried "to combine Enlightenment principles with a modernized Christian theism."[6]
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