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Author: Mara Rockliff Publisher: Candlewick ISBN: 076369410X Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 48
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The author of Mesmerized shares another comical true tale of a Founding Father using science to defeat ignorance and stop the spread of false information. Thomas Jefferson was wild about numbers. He was constantly counting, measuring, and observing things that caught his interest. He loved sharing his discoveries and reading the discoveries of others. But when a famous Frenchman published a book about America, Jefferson was appalled: all the information in the book was wrong. The author insisted that America was a wretched, dismal place, where birds could not sing, dogs could not bark, and everything and everyone was puny and weak. Thomas Jefferson resolved to set the record straight — with numbers — and prove to the world that the new nation was worthy of investment. But how do you show that a country is plentiful in an age when photography hasn’t been invented yet? Mara Rockliff, master of children’s nonfiction, details another little-known moment in math and natural history, illustrated with humor by prolific artist S. D. Schindler and accompanied by extensive back matter and an informative author’s note.
Author: Mara Rockliff Publisher: Candlewick ISBN: 076369410X Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 48
Book Description
The author of Mesmerized shares another comical true tale of a Founding Father using science to defeat ignorance and stop the spread of false information. Thomas Jefferson was wild about numbers. He was constantly counting, measuring, and observing things that caught his interest. He loved sharing his discoveries and reading the discoveries of others. But when a famous Frenchman published a book about America, Jefferson was appalled: all the information in the book was wrong. The author insisted that America was a wretched, dismal place, where birds could not sing, dogs could not bark, and everything and everyone was puny and weak. Thomas Jefferson resolved to set the record straight — with numbers — and prove to the world that the new nation was worthy of investment. But how do you show that a country is plentiful in an age when photography hasn’t been invented yet? Mara Rockliff, master of children’s nonfiction, details another little-known moment in math and natural history, illustrated with humor by prolific artist S. D. Schindler and accompanied by extensive back matter and an informative author’s note.
Author: Lee Alan Dugatkin Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 022663910X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 179
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Capturing the essence of the origin and evolution of the so-called "degeneracy debates," over whether the flora and fauna of America (including Native Americans) were naturally weaker and feebler than species elsewhere in the world, this book chronicles Thomas Jefferson's efforts to counter French conceptions of American degeneracy, culminating in his sending of a stuffed moose to Buffon
Author: Michael Johnson Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 107
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Jefferson's antagonist was the famous Frenchman George Louis Leclerc, Buffon was a writer and naturalist that spent his life working on a 46-volume series of books. The sprawling megabook contains a new theory of the origin of the Earth. None of it bent Thomas Jefferson's ear...until Volume V, titled "Theory of American Degeneracy." Buffon's theory was that America was too cold and wet to prosper. Due to wind patterns and untrammeled wilderness, the sun only provided enough warmth and nourishment to make "cold men and feeble animals, that shrunk, weakened, or disappeared entirely. But, the Old World remained sunny and prodigious, and its species were full of spit and vinegar. This theory was, literally, an attack on America. The Theory of American Degeneracy was trotted out not only to explain why America's deer were smaller and dogs were quieter, but to prove that the whole American experiment was doomed to fail. The climate just wasn't right for democracy. This drove Jefferson crazy. Disproving Buffon became, one of his great obsessions, even as he wrote the Declaration, governed Virginia, saw the War of Independence won, served as the minister to France, and suffered the death of his wife and several of his children. Over the course of several years, Jefferson amassed his case against Buffon. He made the other Founding Fathers measure animal carcasses and send him their findings. He brought an American panther skin across the ocean with him to France and dropped it at Buffon's place. He then tried to one-up himself by mounting a campaign to get a moose stuffed and sent over, a years-long ordeal that ended with a partially putrefied specimen shedding on Buffon's doorstep, the wrong type of antlers tied to its head. One Lewis and Clarks orders on their expedition west, was to bring back a Mammoth, or a Giant Moose or even a Sabre-tooth Tiger. Cervalces scotti, the elk moose, is an extinct species of large moose that lived in North America in ancient times.
Author: Beth Anderson Publisher: Astra Publishing House ISBN: 1635928621 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 44
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Thomas Jefferson is one of the most famous founding fathers, but did you know that his mind was always on science? This STEM/STEAM picture book tells how Jefferson’s scientific thinking and method battled against faulty facts and bias to prove that his new nation was just as good as any in the Old World. Young Thomas Jefferson loved to measure the natural world: plants and animals, mountains and streams, crops and weather. With a notepad in his pocket, he constantly examined, experimented, and explored. He dreamed of making great discoveries like the well-known scientific author, Count Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon. But when Buffon published an encyclopedia of the natural world, Jefferson was furious! According to the French count, America was cold and swampy, and filled with small and boring animals, nothing like the majestic creatures of the OId World. Jefferson knew Buffon had never even been to America. Where had Buffon gotten his information? Had he cherry-picked the facts to suit his arguments? Was he biased in favor of Europe? How could Jefferson prove Buffon wrong? By using scientific inquiry, of course! This first picture book to emphasize Jefferson’s use of scientific methods is an accessible and entertaining approach to a lesser-known side of Jefferson.
Author: David G. Post Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199743983 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 264
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In 1787, Thomas Jefferson, then the American Minister to France, had the "complete skeleton, skin & horns" of an American moose shipped to him in Paris and mounted in the lobby of his residence as a symbol of the vast possibilities contained in the strange and largely unexplored New World. Taking a cue from Jefferson's efforts, David Post, one of the nation's leading Internet scholars, here presents a pithy, colorful exploration of the still mostly undiscovered territory of cyberspace--what it is, how it works, and how it should be governed. What law should the Internet have, and who should make it? What are we to do, and how are we to think, about online filesharing and copyright law, about Internet pornography and free speech, about controlling spam, and online gambling, and cyberterrorism, and the use of anonymous remailers, or the practice of telemedicine, or the online collection and dissemination of personal information? How can they be controlled? Should they be controlled? And by whom? Post presents the Jeffersonian ideal--small self-governing units, loosely linked together as peers in groups of larger and larger size--as a model for the Internet and for cyberspace community self-governance. Deftly drawing on Jefferson's writings on the New World in Notes on the State of Virginia, Post draws out the many similarities (and differences) between the two terrains, vividly describing how the Internet actually functions from a technological, legal, and social perspective as he uniquely applies Jefferson's views on natural history, law, and governance in the New World to illuminate the complexities of cyberspace. In Search of Jefferson's Moose is a lively, accessible, and remarkably original overview of the Internet and what it holds for the future.
Author: Mara Rockliff
Author: Mara Rockliff
Author: Lee Alan Dugatkin
Author: Michael Johnson
Author: Beth Anderson
Author: Thomas Jefferson
Author: Thomas Jefferson
Author: Anna Clark Jones
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Author: David A. Adler
Author: David G. Post