"...my method is to make two observations a day..."
—Thomas Jefferson, 1790
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A combination of Jefferson's fascination with the culture of the Indigenous People of Virginia and his adherence to the European Enlightenment's emphasis on empirical data and scientific categorization resulted in Jefferson's excavation of a Monacan burial mound along the Rivanna River.
In commemoration of the 275th anniversary of the American Philosophical Society’s founding in 1743 and the birth of its long-time president, Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826), this volume explores the history of science, knowledge production, and learning during the Age of Jefferson through papers presented at a 2018 symposium.
Historian James P. Ronda retells this compelling part of the American story by contrasting Thomas Jefferson's expectations for the expedition with what Clark and Lewis actually experienced.
Thomas Jefferson and the Mammoth Hunt is a rhyming account of Jefferson’s quest to disprove French naturalist Count Buffon’s claim that America only had small animals.
