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The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, Volume 12: 1 September 1817 to 21 April 1818

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Full Title:

The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, Volume 12: 1 September 1817 to 21 April 1818

Contributors:

By (Author) Thomas Jefferson
Edited by J. Jefferson Looney

ISBN:

9780691168296

Publisher:

Princeton University Press

Imprint:

Princeton University Press

Publication Date:

29th March 2016

Country:

United States

Classifications

Readership:

Tertiary Education

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Other Subjects:

Political leaders and leadership

Dewey:

973.46092

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Hardback

Number of Pages:

784

Dimensions:

Width 152mm, Height 235mm

Weight:

1361g

Description

The 580 documents in this volume cover a wide range of fascinating topics. Jefferson receives impressions of a mammoth's tooth, altitude and meteorological observations, a call for a national pharmacopoeia, a discussion of primeval geology, and a letter that elicits Jefferson's opinion that cognition exists "in animal bodies certainly, in Vegetable

Author Bio

J. Jefferson Looney is editor of The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, which is sponsored by the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, Charlottesville, Virginia.

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