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Symposium on Newly Acquired Jefferson Letters for the APS Library. Part III: The "Great Claw" and the Science of Thomas Jefferson.
Title
Symposium on Newly Acquired Jefferson Letters for the APS Library. Part III: The "Great Claw" and the Science of Thomas Jefferson.
Identifier(s)
video:1041; 2010_04_004
Description
Keith Thomson talks about Jefferson's scientific thoughts and his personal battle with the french Count Buffon. In 1796, Jefferson received a letter announcing a discovery of bones of a large animal (the giant sloth).
Subject
History of Science; Extinction (Biology); Imagocnus; Miocene sloth; Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826, Views on science; Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de, 1707-1788; APS Meeting Videos
Date
2010-04-22