Government and religions should fear air pumps and electrical machines for the following reasons: these inventions play a role in…
In the context of this week’s reading, air pumps and electrical machines represent progress and change. Governments and religious entities,…
The theme of Priestley’s quote at the beginning is that governments or specifically the English hierarchy had a reason to…
Science is often seen as something that exists outside the realms of politics or religion, however, for Joseph Priestley the…
The Government was afraid of improved technology because the air pump and electrical machines gave normal people the power of…
Johnson uses a few examples in The Invention of Air about how technologies such as air pumps and electrical machines…
Governments and religions should fear electrical machines and air pumps because that is what ends up shaping what governments and…
Priestly’s revolutionary ideologies spanned his religious, scientific and political perspectives as one interconnected web; they informed and affected one…
I think that they should be afraid of air pumps and electrical machines because in that time period they were…
Air pumps and electrical machines used to send shivers down the spines of English politicians and priests. The idea that such machines could…
Governments and religions have every right to fear things such as air pumps and electrical machines. Inventions like these really…
This idea of governments and religions fearing these technologies is an important part of history. As Johnson states in The…
These inventions could change religion and governments in very diffrent ways but both with a negative outcomes for their side.…
Governments and religions should fear “air pumps and electrical machines” because of what theses scientific advancements and others like it…
Fearing things such as an air pump or electrical machine is something that governments and religions have to take into…
Technology certainly has drawbacks and negative impacts on humans. However, there are many reasons that governments should fear air pumps…
Governments and religions typically strive to maintain the current social order of the hierarchies they oversee. Science, in contrast, questions…
Governments have always had a disconnect with the people that is governs. That may not be totally visible but the…
Priestly uses this quote to make the abilities of technology and science very clear. New found technologies and science are…
Governments and religions should fear air pumps not because of what an air pump is, but because it is a…
I think that governments and religions fear the air pump and the electrical machine because they enabled one of the…
In Yuval Harari’s Sapiens, he argues that societies are only possible due to shared beliefs. Reading The Invention of Air…
Shortly after the epigraph quote is repeated on page 130, Johnson explains the battling nature of politics, religion, and science.…
Religions should fear air pumps and electrical machines because science challenges the very being of what religion is. Priestly wrote…
“The English hierarchy has equal reason to tremble at an air pump, or an electrical machine” (Johnson, 148) In the…
In his novel, Johnson asserts, through his detailed analysis of Joseph Priestley’s life, that the air pump and/or electricity should…
Governments, religions, and other relatively static institutes that hold power over large numbers of people should fear air pumps and…
Inventing air would’ve been quite the feat. Joseph Priestly discovered air which led to the reasoning how and why combustion…
I think this quote by Priestley is an interesting way of saying that governments and religions fear science. In the…
In Johnson’s Invention of Air, the idea of governments or religions fearing air pumps and electrical machines is mentioned extensively. This…
The use of the air pump and electrical machines are good, specific examples of things that kicked off the Industrial…
The air pump is one if the few of the few innovations in earths history that has had such an…
In the 18th century, the collective advancements in energy and how to apply it to businesses within society has…
Joseph Priestley stated, “The English hierarchy (if there be anything unsound in its constitution) has equal reason to tremble at…
Throughout history, there has been an undeniable trend of an increase in comfort and ease of life for the elite…
Governments should fear air pumps and electrical machines because with new inventions governments can be challenged or even toppled. This…
When people started drinking coffee and tea, instead of beer in the morning, many more things were accomplished throughout the…
The statement that governments and religions should fear air pumps and electrical machines is a comment about the fact that…
Religions have reason to fear things like air pumps and electricity not for the science behind them, but for the…
I believe what Joseph Priestley was trying to get at when stating science is something to be concerned about for…
Why should governments and religions fear air pumps and electrical machines? Why climb the highest mountain? Why does Rice play…
Fear of the unknown. Otherwise known as an unwillingness to undergo change. Why should governments and religions fear the inventions…
The notion that the great English empire and hierarchy should tremble at the air pump or electrical machine, would have…
Governments and religions have reason to fear air pumps and electrical machines because of what those machines represent. As science…
Within Johnson’s book and Priestly’s life, governments and religions had reason to fear things such as air pumps and electrical…
In Observations on Air, written in 1774, Joseph Priestly relates the effects of a surge of knowledge on religion to…
Government and religions need not fear the air pumps and electric machine as objects themselves but the new understanding of…
HSTR 207 – Science and Technology in World History Mary Hill Young 10/1/18 What a government has to…
Joseph Priestly states at the beginning of Steven Johnson’s book The Invention of Air that the English hierarchy should fear…
Governments and religions do not need to fear air pumps and electrical machines. Governments and religions have to fear what…
Many scientific inventions can change society in different ways, big and small. Governments and religions should be cautious of air…
Fear is unequivocally tied with any type of scientific progress; people who are subject to change often times can not…
Governments are put together and run on the basis of ideas that have been used in the past. They operate…
Governments and religions do not need to fear air pumps and electrical machines themselves, they need to fear the new…
Air pumps and electrical machines represent scientific innovation and progress. Innovation wasn’t always a good thing, it meant discounting the…
Governments and religions should fear air pumps and electrical machines because of the potential for new revolutions in industry and…
In Johnson’s book The Invention of Air, Johnson explains that Priestley’s introduction to Observations on Air made bold claims in…
Governments and religions should fear the Air pump and electrical machines because they go against the mass beliefs of what…
Steven speaks about how governments fear the air pump and the electrical machines. It’s not that they fear specially those…
Johnson’s response to Priestly’s statement “The English hierarchy (if there be anything unsound in its constitution) has equal reason to…
While governments have no real reason to fear air pumps, electrical machines, or steam engines because of their inherent qualities,…
Governments and religions should be afraid of air pumps and electrical machines because they mean scientific progress. Scientific progress will…
Holding an ever-important presence in the everyday life of the working-class citizens in the late 1700’s, the Church and country’s…
For Johnson, these two groups were the vital pillar of the English country. Therefore, if they were reduced or they…
Scientific discoveries and technologies such as the air pump and electrical machines have radical implications for politics and religion. Scientific…
Johnson was one of the great thinkers, a man capable of seeing the bigger picture, the pieces (politics, religion, science)…
In Joseph Priestley’s progressive writings, it is noted that the English hierarchy, both the religious and political aspects, should be…
Unlike any famous person alive today, Joseph Priestley was an outspoken scientist, theologian, and politician at the same time. According…
In Johnson’s Invention of Air, there is the idea discussed that air pumps and electrical machines should produce fear in…
Governments and religions should not fear air pumps and electrical machines themselves, but rather what they symbolize: the forward march…
In the epiparagraph prompting this blog, Priestly asserts that the mightiest of empires should fear even the smallest inventions. As…
Throughout The Invention of Air, author Steven Johnson outlines some of the many important revelations during the study of oxygen,…
As Steve Johnson quoted, scientist Joseph Priestley, in the Invention of Air, “The English hierarchy if there be anything unsound…
According to Steven Johnson’s The Invention of Air, governments and religions should fear air pumps and electrical machines due to…
In Johnson’s work titled, The Invention of Air, he discusses how technology and science threaten the current order of both…
1) According to Steven Johnson, governments or religions fear air pumps and electrical machines because governments and religions should fear…
Priestly’s quote about the governments fearing the “air pump, or an electrical machine”, shouldn’t be taken entirely literally. Rather, “unsound”…
Johnson discusses Priestley’s particular knack for challenging the ‘status quo’ not only in religion, but in science, and political philosophy.…
Throughout history of science there has probably has been very few inventions as important as the air pump. It can…
Governments should fear the invention of inventions such as the air pump and electrical machines because the potential in dependency…
The air pump and electrical machines are objects to be feared because they represent the enlightenment and advancement in collective…
According to Johnson, governments or religions should fear air pumps and electrical machines because “just as Priestley had demystified what…
And with him, came challenge. Challenges of modern beliefs. Modern ways of thinking, interpreting, and understanding. Why should governments or…
Religions, more so than governments, should fear air pumps and electrical machines. Throughout the second part of the book, Johnson…
According to Joseph Priestly, governments and religions should fear air pumps and electrical machines because they are signs of a…
Air pumps and electrical machines may seem trivial in the grand scheme of society and government today, but they are…
So what it looks like to me is that the European government feared the air pump and the electrical machines,…
Governments and religions should fear air pumps and electrical machines, not necessarily because of the nature of the inventions themselves,…
Priestly was a true renaissance man. He was able to blend science, religion, and politics into a rational series of…
One reason that religions in particular might have to fear air pumps and electrical machines could be a situation in…
Governments and religions should fear air pumps and electrical machines because they have the power to keep these institutions in…
The danger of scientific development, especially pertaining to those in power, is that it threatens the traditional school…
Eighteenth and nineteenth century governments and religion should have feared air pumps and electrical machines for several reasons. The most…
When it comes to air, Religion is an important part of. The spirit of the soul was of “mephitic air”…
I the reading and through discussions in class it would seem apparent that governments and religions should fear the air…
The largest revelation of the 18th century was the improvement of the technology available to the average person and by…
Bryce Dawkins Paragraph 1: The church or religions have been a powerful thing for many centuries. Religions and faith have…