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Author: Martin Richard Clagett
Publisher: Uva - Office of the President
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 186
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKStudy of Thomas Jefferson as a scientist, including the various branches of science he studied and to which he made lasting contributions. Also examines how science shaped his views on the politics, religion, economics, and social developments in his own country.
Author: Silvio A. Bedini
Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 672
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKInventor, botanist, geographer, archaeologist, architect, tireless recorder of the natural world--Bedini gives us the Jefferson that not only forged the politics of America, but made scientific progress synonymous with the spirit of America. 24 photographs.
Author: Keith Thomson
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2012-11-27
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 0300184034
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn assessment of the third President's lesser-known passion for science explores his achievements as a consummate intellectual whose scientific views were central to his public and private life, offering insight into how Jefferson's scientific principles shaped his political and religious decisions while revealing his role in launching four major sciences in America.
Author: I. Bernard Cohen
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 378
ISBN-13: 9780393315103
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThomas Jefferson was the only president who could read and understand Newton's Principia. Benjamin Franklin is credited with establishing the science of electricity. John Adams had the finest education in science that the new country could provide, including "Pnewmaticks, Hydrostaticks, Mechanicks, Staticks, Opticks." James Madison, chief architect of the Constitution, peppered his Federalist Papers with references to physics, chemistry, and the life sciences. For these men science was an integral part of life--including political life. This is the story of their scientific education and of how they employed that knowledge in shaping the political issues of the day, incorporating scientific reasoning into the Constitution.
Author: Sandra Rebok
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2014-05-05
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 0813935709
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHumboldt and Jefferson explores the relationship between two fascinating personalities: the Prussian explorer, scientist, and geographer Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) and the American statesman, architect, and naturalist Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826). In the wake of his famous expedition through the Spanish colonies in the spring of 1804, Humboldt visited the United States, where he met several times with then-president Jefferson. A warm and fruitful friendship resulted, and the two men corresponded a good deal over the years, speculating together on topics of mutual interest, including natural history, geography, and the formation of an international scientific network. Living in revolutionary societies, both were deeply concerned with the human condition, and each vested hope in the new American nation as a possible answer to many of the deficiencies characterizing European societies at the time. The intellectual exchange between the two over the next twenty-one years touched on the pivotal events of those times, such as the independence movement in Latin America and the applicability of the democratic model to that region, the relationship between America and Europe, and the latest developments in scientific research and various technological projects. Humboldt and Jefferson explores the world in which these two Enlightenment figures lived and the ways their lives on opposite sides of the Atlantic defined their respective convictions.
Author: Lee Alan Dugatkin
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2019-04-04
Total Pages: 179
ISBN-13: 022663910X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCapturing the essence of the origin and evolution of the so-called "degeneracy debates," over whether the flora and fauna of America (including Native Americans) were naturally weaker and feebler than species elsewhere in the world, this book chronicles Thomas Jefferson's efforts to counter French conceptions of American degeneracy, culminating in his sending of a stuffed moose to Buffon
Author: Evelynn Maxine Hammonds
Publisher:
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 410
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK'The Nature of Difference' documents how distinctions between people have been generated in and by the life sciences. Through commentaries and a wide-ranging selection of primary documents, it charts the shifting boundaries of science and race over more than two centuries of American history.
Author: Thomas S. Engeman
Publisher:
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 240
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of late 20th-century scholarship devoted to Thomas Jefferson as a politician, writer, philosopher, Christian and economist.
Author: John C. Greene
Publisher:
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 514
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Silvio A. Bedini
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 136
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThough we most often think of Jefferson as president and statesman, he is also recognized, in the words of the late Dumas Malone, "as an American pioneer in numerous branches of science, notably paleontology, ethnology, geography, and botany." In this fascinating book, Silvio Bedini, the acknowledged authority on Jefferson's "supreme delight" in the sciences, explores his wide-ranging mathematical and scientific pursuits. Taught surveying by his map-making father, Jefferson developed an interest in measurement and observation at an early age. He was captivated not only by the topography around him, but also by the stars and planets in the heavens above and by the minerals, fossils, artifacts, and plants in the soil below. Known internationally as a man of learning and as the long-serving president of the American Philosophical Society, Jefferson read widely, corresponded with other science enthusiasts worldwide, promoted scientific exploration--most notably, the Lewis and Clark expedition--and performed his own diverse experiments. Painting a broad picture of Jefferson as scientist, this book offers a captivating new look at one of America's great Renaissance men.
