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Ambrose, Stephen E. Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West. 1996. $27.50; $16.00 (pb).

Bedini, Silvio A. Thomas Jefferson and His Copying Machines. 1984. $28.50.

Bedini, Silvio A. Thomas Jefferson: Statesman of Science. 1990. $35.00.Jefferson's telescope, photo by Edward Owen

Cohen, I. Bernard. Science and the Founding Fathers: Science in the Political Thought of Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and James Madison. 1995. $25.00; $15.95 (pb).

Cohen, I. Bernard, ed. Thomas Jefferson and the Sciences. 1980. Reprinted articles. $57.50.

Flores, Dan L. Jefferson and Southwest Exploration: The Freeman and Austin Accounts of the Red River Expedition of 1806. 1984. $17.95 (pb).

Greene, John C. American Science in the Age of Jefferson. 1984. $12.95 (pb).

Jackson, Donald. Thomas Jefferson & the Stony Mountains: Exploring the West from Monticello. 1981. $29.95; $17.95 (pb).

Maguire, Robert J., ed. The Tour to the Northern Lakes of James Madison and Thomas Jefferson, May - June 1791. A facsimile edition of their travel journals. 1995. $12.95 (pb).

Miller, Charles A. Jefferson and Nature. 1993. $16.95 (pb).

Regis, Pamela. Describing Early America: Bartram, Jefferson, Crêvecoeur, and the Rhetoric of Natural History. 1992. $30.00.

Rice, Howard C. Thomas Jefferson's Paris. 1976. $19.95 (pb).

Ronda, James P. Thomas Jefferson and the Changing West. 1997. $16.95 (pb).

Shackelford, George Green. Thomas Jefferson's Travels in Europe, 1784-1789. 1995. $34.95.


Photo of Jefferson's telescope by Edward Owen