Jefferson's Shadow by Keith Stewart Thomson
Reintroduces us to Thomas Jefferson's eighteenth-century world and reveals how Jefferson used science, thought about it, contributed to it, and became the leading scientific intellectual of his time. This book shows us a new side of Jefferson.
"'Architect, philosopher, critic of slavery, slave-owner; the contradictions of American 'founding father' Thomas Jefferson are well knownThat he was a scientist is not. Natural historian Keith Thomson redresses the balance in this finely wrought biography.' (Nature)"
Keith Stewart Thomson (1938–2025) was a distinguished evolutionary biologist, historian, and writer. He was emeritus professor of natural history at the University of Oxford and had served as director of the Oxford Museum of Natural History, the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, and the Peabody Museum at Yale University, where he was also a professor and dean. He wrote many books and essays on history, history of science, evolution, and paleontology, including The Common but Less Frequent Loon and Other Essays; Before Darwin: Reconciling God and Nature; The Young Charles Darwin; and The Legacy of the Mastodon: The Golden Age of Fossils in America.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780300205930 |
| ISBN 10 | 0300205937 |
| Title | Jefferson's Shadow |
| Author | Keith Stewart Thomson |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Yale University Press |
| Year published | 2015-06-15 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
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