… career as a schoolmaster in Chichester, took to itineracy in that decade. In his first few years on the road, he visited Bath, Birmingham, Chester, and Shrewsbury, announcing his arrival in advance in newspaper advertisements and having … Gentlemen’s Society in Spalding in Lincolnshire, the Philosophical Society presided over by Erasmus Darwin in Derby, the Bath Philosophical Society, and the Mathematical Society formed by weavers in Spitalfields in the East End of London. The … Joseph Priestley, The History and Present State of Electricity, with Original Experiments. 3rd ed., 2 vols. (London: C. Bathurst and T. Lowndes, 1775) 1, p. xii, ii. 12 . Joseph Priestley, Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of …