Hi folks, Intrigued, listening to "In Our Time" discussing Priestly, Schaeler and Lavoisier in the discovery of oxygen in the 1770's ....
.... to hear that Priestly, looking at "dephlogisticated air" (ie oxygen) refers to the quality (ie goodness / badness) of air to support life as "virtue" deliberately inferring the moral as well as physical quality. Well I never. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20071115.shtml Learn something new every day. Ian Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
