The spirit of inquiry in the age of Jefferson / cosponsors, the American Philosophical Society, the National Constitutional Center, the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies, the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies ; edited by The American Philosophical Society.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

American Philosophical Society, sponsoring body, editor.

National Center for Constitutional Studies (U.S.), sponsoring body.

Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies, sponsoring body.

Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, sponsoring body.

Conference Name:

Spirit of Inquiry in the Age of Jefferson (Conference) (2018 : American Philosophical Society), author.

Series:

Transactions of the American Philosophical Society ; 0065-9746 v. 110, pt. 2.

Transactions of the American Philosophical Society held at Philadelphia for promoting useful knowledge, 0065-9746 ; volume 110, part 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826--Knowledge and learning--Science--Congresses.

Jefferson, Thomas.

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826.

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826--Knowledge and learning--Congresses.

Science--United States--History--18th century--Congresses.

Science.

Science--United States--History--19th century--Congresses.

Science and state--United States--History--18th century--Congresses.

Science and state.

Science and state--United States--History--19th century--Congresses.

Learning and scholarship--United States--History--18th century--Congresses.

Learning and scholarship.

Learning and scholarship--United States--History--19th century--Congresses.

History.

United States.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 351 pages : illustrations (some color), plan ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : American Philosophical Society Press, [2022]

Summary:

""The Spirit of Inquiry in the Age of Jefferson" explores the history of science in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries"-- Provided by publisher.

"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), the APS Library, along with the National Constitution Center, the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello, and the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania held a symposium in June 2018 that explored the history of science, knowledge production, and learning during the Age of Jefferson. The volume contains papers from many of the presenters at the symposium. The chapters touch on an enormous range of topics and fields, much like Jefferson's own intellectual life. Also much like Jefferson, they are international in scope. Subjects range from inoculation to animal magnetism to Jewish migrants in the eighteenth century. Both books are a testament to the mission Jefferson served throughout his life and that both institutions still aim to serve today: "to promote useful knowledge." Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction / Patrick Spero

Thomas Jefferson's evolving plans for a University for America / Christine Coalwell McDonald and Robert M.S. McDonald

Instruction for freedom: the inductive science of education in the early republic / Timothy K. Minella

Thomas Jefferson's Indian Hall at the University of Virginia / Elizabeth Chew

From founding to failure : the American Philosophical Society, 1743-46 / Paul Sivitz

"The sooner they become American, the better" : Spanish imperial geography and the early republic in the age of Jefferson / Matthew E. Franco

André Michaux, Thomas Jefferson, and the "injunction of science" / Elizabeth Hyde

Thomas Jefferson, inoculation, and the Norfolk riots : public health versus private medicine in revolutionary Virginia / Andrew M. Wehrman

Thomas Jefferson, military technology, and the state / Andrew J.B. Fagal

Design by "considerable degree" : Jefferson's architecture as applied science / Danielle S. Willkens

Enlightened networks : Thomas Jefferson's system for working from home / Diane Ehrenpreis and Endrina Tay

Lost in translation : David Bailie Warden, the Abbé Grégoire's De la littérature des Nègres, and the limits to Franco-Jeffersonian cultural exchange / Joseph Eaton

Enlightened Judaism : polite sociability & Jewish migrants' pursuits of status in eighteenth-century Pennsylvania / Jonathon Awtrey

Hidden in plain sight : a Biblioteca Hebraica Atlantica / Arthur Kiron

Containing the flow of animal magnetism : Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and the Mesmer report / Philipp Ziesche

Thomas Jefferson and the quest for legacy / Rebecca Brannon.

Notes:

Papers from the conference held at the American Philosophical Society .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Spirit of inquiry in the age of Jefferson

ISBN:

9781606181027

1606181025

OCLC:

1255522431