A Passion for Nature: Thomas Jefferson and Natural History (Monticello Monograph)

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Thomas Jefferson once wrote to a friend that politics was once his “duty” but natural history was once his “passion.” As this book shows, he was once at all times a man for whom nature was once important. With his devotion to detailed knowledge, precise calculation, and rational enquiry, natural history related to the whole lot he did, as a farmer, as a philosopher, and as a citizen. For all his gifts in philosophy and politics and his fascination with the American West, he was once never more happy than at home at Monticello, riding across the fields and experimenting with new crops. The great wonder is that, along with his public life, he had time to be one among American’s first serious students of, among other things, fossils, botany, climate, geology, and anthropology.

Author, Keith Thomson was once a visiting fellow on the Thomas Jefferson Foundation’s Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies in 2007. He’s professor emeritus of natural history at Yale University and senior research fellow of the American Philosophical Society. Creator of twelve other books on evolution, paleontology, and the history of science, he was once prior to now professor and dean at Yale, president of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, and university scientist-in-place of abode on the New School for Social Research.

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