TY  - BOOK
AU  - Thomson,Keith Stewart
TI  - Jefferson's shadow: the story of his science 
SN  - 0300184034 : HRD
AV  - E332.2 .T56 2012
U1  - 973.4/6092 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Jefferson, Thomas,
KW  - Science
KW  - History
KW  - 18th century
KW  - 19th century
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -