Other Pages
The following pages elaborate on some of the scientific, philosophical and historical issues surrounding the Thomas Jefferson Fossil Collection.
- Big Bone Lick (Famous fossil locality in Kentucky and souce for most of the Thomas Jefferson Fossil Collection)
- Buffon's American Degeneracy (links to Part 1)
- Part 1: Old World vs. New (Buffon's theory)
- Part 2: Americans Respond (Rebuttals by Jefferson and others)
- Part 3: Modern Perspectives (Fallacies and contributions by Buffon)
- Buffon's Epochs of Nature (An influential 1778 "Theory of the Earth)
- Cuvier's Revolutions of the Globe (Cuvier's impact on paleontology, geology and the History of Life)
- Fossils and Extinction (Changing views on the meanings of fossils and the History of Life)
- Notes on the State of Virginia (Jefferson's influential book)
- Sampling of Notes (Annotated excerpts from the book)
- Peale's American Museum (An pioneering natural history museum located in Philadelphia that featured Peale's "Mammoth")
- Philadelphia School of Paleontology (The story of the science in America following the Age of Jefferson)
- Product of the Enlightenment (A discussion of the sources and characteristics of Jefferson's scientific philosophy)