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The Invention of Air
  • Published: 8 December 2009
  • ISBN: 9780141044354
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $32.99

The Invention of Air

An experiment, a journey, a new country and the amazing force of scientific discovery

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From the bestselling author of Everything Bad is Good For You

In 1794, Joseph Priestley - amateur scientist, ordained minister and radical thinker - set sail for America to escape persecution. Stephen Johnson tells his incredible story: the discovery of oxygen, the invention of a science, the founding of a church, and, with the great minds of his time, the development of the United States itself. But Priestley's revolutionary ideas put him in terrible danger.

Johnson uses the progress of Priestley and his colleagues not merely to describe the wonder of discovery, but to show us how we have come to understand the world, how far we have travelled with the power of human enquiry - and how one man's curiosity can help build an entire country.
  • Published: 8 December 2009
  • ISBN: 9780141044354
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $32.99
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Stephen T. Johnson

Stephen T. Johnson is a highly versatile American artist whose art spans a broad range of concepts, contexts and mediums including painting, collage, drawing, sculpture and installations and can be seen in museum and gallery exhibitions, public art commissions, and through his original award-winning children’s books. 

Much of Johnson’s work is characterized by an interest in the alphabet and language, which began with his book Alphabet City, a Caldecott Honor and New York Times Best Illustrated Book of the Year.  His most recent engagement with the alphabet is his ongoing series of “literal abstractions” which are the subject of his book A is for Art: An Abstract Alphabet, also a New York Times Best Illustrated Book of the Year, and featured in several solo museum and gallery exhibitions.
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