Spirit of Inquiry in the Age of Jefferson

Some essays includs: Jefferson’s Evolving Plans for a University for America; The Inductive Sciences of Education in the Early Republic; Jefferson’s Indian Hall at the University of Virginia; The American Philosophical Society, 1743-46; Spanish Imperial Geography and the Early Republic in the Age of Jefferson; Andre Michaux, Jefferson, and the “Injunction of Science”; Jefferson, Inoculation, and the Norfolk Riots; Jefferson, Military Technology, and the State; Jefferson’s Architecture as Applied Science; Jefferson’s System for Working from Home; Polite Sociability and Jewish Migrants; Pursuit of Status in 18th-Century Pennsylvania; Jefferson and the Quest for Legacy. Illus.