Although he has titled his absorbing book "The Invention of Air," Steven Johnson might have expropriated John O'Hara's "Sermons and Soda Water" for this fast-moving and concise account of the life of ...

IN 2007 and early 2008, when economic skies were blue, I took part in a committee charged by the Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission (PHMC) to submit a plan to increase the number of visitors ...

THE recent issue of Isis (pp. 81-97) contains an important paper by Mr. W. Cameron Walker on “The Beginnings of the Scientific Career of Joseph Priestley”, disposing of the incorrect views expressed ...

UNDER the title, “Joseph Priestley and his place in the History of Science”, Sir Philip Hartog delivered a discourse at the Royal Institution on April 24, a reprint of which, with a postscript dealing ...