Jefferson's shadow : the story of his science / Keith Thomson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Haven : Yale University Press, c2012.Description: xiii, 321 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0300184034 : HRD
  • 9780300184037
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 973.4/6092
LOC classification:
  • E332.2 .T56 2012
Contents:
Lost: one large moose -- The man who could not live without books -- Schooling, formal and informal -- A measured and orderly world -- Science and the mastodon -- The natural history of Virginia and America -- Mountains and shells -- On fossils and extinction -- Europe and the peoples of America -- Natural history, slavery, and race -- The color of their skin -- The Paris years -- The practical scientist -- Climate and geography -- Redeeming the wilderness -- The unknown west -- "His theories I cannot admire" -- Philosophers unwelcome -- Transcendental truths -- Epilogue: measuring the shadow -- Appendix: Jefferson's letter on climate to Jean Baptiste Le Roy.
Summary: An assessment of the third president's passion for science explores his achievements as a consummate intellectual whose scientific views were central to his public and private life.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Lost: one large moose -- The man who could not live without books -- Schooling, formal and informal -- A measured and orderly world -- Science and the mastodon -- The natural history of Virginia and America -- Mountains and shells -- On fossils and extinction -- Europe and the peoples of America -- Natural history, slavery, and race -- The color of their skin -- The Paris years -- The practical scientist -- Climate and geography -- Redeeming the wilderness -- The unknown west -- "His theories I cannot admire" -- Philosophers unwelcome -- Transcendental truths -- Epilogue: measuring the shadow -- Appendix: Jefferson's letter on climate to Jean Baptiste Le Roy.

An assessment of the third president's passion for science explores his achievements as a consummate intellectual whose scientific views were central to his public and private life.

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