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Thomas Jefferson Encyclopedia
Science and Exploration
Thomas Jefferson had a lifelong interest in science and its service for the benefit of the nation and humankind. As a child growing up on the frontier, he appreciated unexplored regions, the land, and its natural wonders. As an adult, he became an accomplished man of science with interests in mathematics, botany, medicine, agriculture, surveying, astronomy, paleontology, archeology, meteorology, and ethnology.Articles
- Aimé Jacques Alexander Bonpland
- Alexander von Humboldt (Silhouette)
- American Indians
- American Moose
- American Philosophical Society
- Astoria
- Astronomical Case Clock
- Benjamin Banneker
- Benjamin Rush
- Benjamin Waterhouse
- Big Bone Lick, Kentucky
- Charles Willson Peale
- Coin Collection
- Cowrie Shell
- Currency
- David Rittenhouse
- David Rittenhouse (Engraving)
- Desalination of Sea Water
- Dynamometer
- Erie Canal
- Eyeglasses
- Geology
- Grizzly Bears
- Hand Magnifier
- Hand Telescope
- Hessian Fly
- Indian Peace Medals
- Inoculation
- Jefferson and Exhibitions
- Jefferson's Excavation of an Indian Burial Mound
- Jeffersonite
- John Melish
- John Trumbull
- John Vaughan
- José Correia da Serra
- Joseph Priestley
- Joshua Fry
- Journey through France and Italy (1787)
- Lamps
- Lewis and Clark Plants at Monticello
- Little short of madness...(Quotation)
- Longitude
- Louisiana Purchase
- Medicinal Springs
- Medicine
- Mediterranean Journey (1787)
- Meriwether Lewis
- Microscopes
- Moldboard Plow
- Nicholas Collin (Silhouette)
- Northern Tour of 1791
- Notes on the State of Virginia
- Old Style (O.S.)
- Orrery
- Patent Storage
- Patents
- Peaks of Otter
- Political Origins of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
- Pyramid of Cheops (Model)
- Red River Expedition
- Return of Lewis and Clark
- Sagessaga (Silhouette)
- Samuel Mitchill
- Shegagahega (Silhouette)
- Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count von Rumford
- Species Extinction
- Spherical Sundial
- Steam
- Survey of the Coast
- Surveying
- System of Nature
- Tahawarra (Silhouette)
- Telescope
- The Eruption of Mount Tambora
- Theodolite
- Thomas Moore
- Virginia Society for the Promotion of Useful Knowledge
- Wasconsca (Silhouette)
- Weather Observations
- Wheel Cipher
- William Bartram
- William Dunbar
- William Small
- Zebulon Pike