1From Thomas Jefferson to John Dickinson, 6 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
...side, who have discountenanced all advances in science as dangerous innovations, have...
2From Thomas Jefferson to Jonathan H. Nichols, 9 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
...right in believing me a sincere friend of science & of it’s propagation and advancement....
3From Thomas Jefferson to Volney, 17 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
...had retired from commerce to devote himself to science, left the United States in late...
4From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Priestley, 21 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
...of power & priestcraft. all advances in science were proscribed as innovations. they pretended...
5From Thomas Jefferson to Moses Robinson, 23 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
...never be realized in the present state of science. if indeed they could have prevailed on...
6From Thomas Jefferson to Peter Legaux, 24 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
...forwarded to the American Philosophical society. Accept assurances of my respect and high...
7From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Rush, 24 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
...gives a high idea of the progress of science there. it seems to keep pace with their...
8From Thomas Jefferson to Elbridge Gerry, 29 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
...the mild and simple principles of the Christian philosophy, would produce too much calm, too...
9From Thomas Jefferson to Caspar Wistar, 31 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
The American Philosophical Society received Peter Legaux’s meteorological
10From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Vaughan, 7 June 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
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11From Thomas Jefferson to James Mease, 29 June 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
...life than all the residue of that field of that science put together. Dr. ...science...philosophy
12From Thomas Jefferson to William C. C. Claiborne, 13 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
...distinguished citizens of the US. in point of science. he is a correspondent of mine in...
13From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Smith, 19 September 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
...are the only effective physicians, all philosophy on [these] sufferings of nature...
14From Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 14 November 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
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15From Thomas Jefferson to John Vaughan, 24 November 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
...to this that it is in a branch of science with which I have little acquaintance, have no...
16From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 4 December 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
...works as “the first germs of so many branches of science” or ..., d’Historie, et de Philosophie
17From Thomas Jefferson to Caspar Wistar, 4 December 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
...as a private one to myself, yet considering that science will wish to know that it is to mr...
18From Thomas Jefferson to Bishop James Madison, 8 December 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
...to set him a going in some branch of science, within the measure of that period, whether...
19Description of a Wheel Cipher, [before 22 March 1802] (Jefferson Papers)
...They were both officers of the American Philosophical Society, they conferred about astronomy,...
20From Thomas Jefferson to John Dickinson, 19 December 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
...of domestic society, of tranquility & of science, & committed ourselves to the ocean of...
21From Thomas Jefferson to Horatio Gates, 20 December 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
...I am. with such a mind, enamoured with science, and at leisure to pursue it, his situation...
22From Thomas Jefferson to Oliver Wolcott, Jr., 27 December 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
...Company with Mr. Grainger solely—Very Philosophic conversation in which I took an active...
23From Thomas Jefferson to John Vaughan and Charles Willson Peale, 13 January 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
...me that the American Philosophical society had again elected me President of the society...
24From Thomas Jefferson to John Vaughan, 14 January 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
: the American Philosophical Society.
25From Thomas Jefferson to Charles Willson Peale, 16 January 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
..., still wish Congress had power to favor science, and that an amendment should be...
26From Thomas Jefferson to Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 18 January 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
...rare I can indulge myself in the luxury of philosophy. your letters give me a few of those...
27From Thomas Jefferson to Lewis Geanty, 23 January 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
...your favor of the 15th. sincerely a friend to science, and to the promotion of it as the...
28From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Patterson, 22 March 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
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29From Thomas Jefferson to Nicolas Gouin Dufief, 23 March 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Le Philosophie d’Epicure par , a French astronomer and philosopher of science, devoted...
30From Thomas Jefferson to Nicolas Gouin Dufief, 1 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
...owned a Latin edition of the works of the philosopher Seneca. A French translation by N. de La...
31From Thomas Jefferson to Caspar Wistar, 13 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
...the Genl. government: to be communicated to the American Philosophl. society.
32From Thomas Jefferson to Abraham Baldwin, 14 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
...confined the catalogue to those branches of science which belong to the deliberations of...
33From Thomas Jefferson to Caesar A. Rodney, 24 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
...address against repeal, Bayard defended the philosophy and policies of the Federalists over...
34From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Redman Coxe, 30 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
...be exhibiting myself before the public in a science where I might be exposed to just criticism...
35From Thomas Jefferson to Joel Barlow, 3 May 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
...“yet unshaken,” still spurned “the mazy paths of philosophers” (
36From Thomas Jefferson to David Campbell, 9 June 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
...to Wm. & Mary college for mathematics, natural philosophy, & Rhetoric. I do not mention...
37From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas McLean, 9 June 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
...to forbid myself to enter into philosophical speculations. should you propose to...
38From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Whitney, 13 June 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
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39From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Smith, 24 June 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
a man of the first science in the US. without exception, an antient inhabitant there...
40From Thomas Jefferson to Isaac Briggs, 29 June 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
.... this lot falls often on my philosophical and literary correspondence. to this...
41From Thomas Jefferson to John Langdon, 29 June 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
...subjected to the dominion of the visionary philosophists of bloated and besotted Virginia, and...
42From Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 15 July 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
...the work; I considered him as a man of science fled from persecution, & assured my friend of...
43From Thomas Jefferson to John Brown, 14 August 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed letter of thanks from the Philosophical society has been sent me to forward to you.
44From Thomas Jefferson to Gideon Granger, 15 August 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
...certainly dictate it as a measure of pre[science?] & self preservation. I always...
45From Thomas Jefferson to Jacob Bouldin, 8 September 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
...of looking into matters of literature & science, altho’ they would be much more...
46Statement of Account with John March, 11 October 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
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47From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Patterson, 16 October 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
...in use. Capt Groves is not a man of science, & does not perfectly know how to estimate...
48From Thomas Jefferson to Michael Bowyer, 3 November 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
...of Thomas Jefferson and the American Philosophical Society in the Geological Mentoring of...
49From Thomas Jefferson to the National Institute of France, 3 November 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
...pleased to announce to me that the National institute of sciences and arts ...sciences: and...
50From Thomas Jefferson to Nicolas Gouin Dufief, 17 November 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
, and to the diatribes of the Anti-philosophers, which from ...aux philosophes aux franc-maçons...