Tiny ECLS Letter #13
Tiny ECLS Letter
Wanna go down a rabbit-hole…? Of course you do! Here we go!
2024 marks the 250th anniversary of the year that Joseph Priestley discovered that air is composed of different gases, of which one is oxygen… On August 1 1774, to be precise… (they even held a party at his house for it, 250 years later…).
Before that, it was assumed that air was simply air, and nothing else. Priestley was a remarkable uomo universalis, who also serendipitiously found that India rubber would erase lead pencil lines (the eraser), observed that plants produce oxygen in the air (photosynthesis) and by describing the discovery of oxygen to Lavoisier, Priestley gave Lavoisier the clue needed to develop his theory of chemical reactions… He also isolated carbon monoxide, founded the Unitarian Church in the United States and a colloquium held on the centennial of his discovery of oxygen led to the founding of the American Chemical Society, which is todays’ world's largest scientific society. What a life… (all this from this source)
On the occasion of the 100th birthday, there was a gathering at Priestley’s grave by American chemists, which were called on to do this in this small article in Nature, from July 23, 1874… (we wonder if everyone got there in time…), next to the account of the Flying Man, crashing to his death… (how times have not changed)
We always wonder what these scientists would say when they saw what remarkable steps humanity and science have taken during the last decennia. Imagine Priestley, or Leonardo Da Vinci, looking at the videos produced by the latest imaging techniques in the first article of this TEL…
Last note: the experiment that led to the discovery of oxygen (then called ‘dephlogisticated air’) was already done one year before, with the same results, by Swedish apothecary Carl Wilhelm Scheele. Unfortunately, he only published it in 1777. There is so much drama surrounding this, that they even wrote a play on it.
Better get those papers out…
#enjoyandshare
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