Priestley pensait que ses Charts donneraient à ses étudiants « une juste image de l'essor, du progrès, de l'étendue, de la durée et de l'état actuel de tous les grands empires ayant jamais existé de par le monde »[2].
Notes et références
↑Joseph Priestley, A Chart of Biography. London: J. Johnson, St. Paul's Church Yard, 1765 et Joseph Priestley, A description of a chart of biography. [Warrington] : Printed at Warrington, 1764; A Description of a Chart of Biography. Warrington: Printed by William Eyres, 1765.
↑Citation originale : « a just image of the rise, progress, extent, duration, and contemporary state of all the considerable empires that have ever existed in the world. » Citation in Sheps, 146.
Bibliographie
John McLachlan, « Joseph Priestley and the Study of History. », Transactions of the Unitarian Historical Society 19 (1987-90): p. 252-63.
Robert E. Schofield, The Enlightenment of Joseph Priestley: A Study of his Life and Work from 1733 to 1773. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997. (ISBN978-0-271-01662-7).
Arthur Sheps, « Joseph Priestley's Time Charts: The Use and Teaching of History by Rational Dissent in late Eighteenth-Century England. » Lumen 18 (1999): p. 135-154.