Science & Exploration

Articles on Jefferson's lifelong interest in science, exploration, and technology written by Monticello researchers and scholars.

101 Entries

Aimé Jacques Alexandre Bonpland (Silhouette)
American Bison Fossil
American Moose
American Philosophical Society
Anthony Fothergill (Silhouette)
Astoria
Astronomical Clock
Big Bone Lick, Kentucky
Camera Obscura
Clocks and Timekeeping
Coin Collection
Concave Mirror
Constantine Samuel Rafinesque
Currency
David Rittenhouse
David Rittenhouse (Engraving)
Desalinization of Sea Water
Dynamometer
Elk Antlers
Erie Canal
Eyeglasses
Francis Walker Gilmer
Geology
George Gilmer
Grizzly Bears
Hand Magnifier
Hand Telescope
Hessian Fly
Indian Peace Medals
Inoculation
Isolated Molars of Mastodon
Jefferson and Exhibitions
Jefferson's Excavation of a Native American Burial Mound
Jeffersonite
John Melish
John Vaughan
José Correia da Serra
Joseph Priestley
Joshua Fry
Journey through France and Italy (1787)
Lamps
Lewis and Clark Plants at Monticello
Little short of madness...(Quotation)
Longitude
Louisiana Purchase
Medicinal Springs
Medicine
Mediterranean Journey (1787)
Megalonyx Jeffersonii Fossils
Meriwether Lewis
Micrometer
Microscopes
Moldboard Plow
Moose Antlers
Native Americans
Nicholas Collin (Silhouette)
Northern Tour of 1791
Notes on the State of Virginia
Odometer
Old Style (O.S.)
Orrery
Patent Storage
Patents
Peaks of Otter
Perspective Glass
Political Origins of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
Preparations for the Lewis and Clark Expedition
Pyramid of Cheops (Model)
Red River Expedition
Return of Lewis and Clark
Sagessaga (Silhouette)
Samuel Mitchill
Shegagahega (Silhouette)
Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count von Rumford
Species Extinction
Spherical Sundial
Steam
Survey of the Coast
Surveying
Surveying Compass
System of Nature
Tahawarra (Silhouette)
Telescope
The Eruption of Mount Tambora
The Lewis & Clark Expedition
Theodolite
Thermometer
Thomas Moore's Portable Refrigerator
Thoracic Vertebra of Mastodon
Ulna of Mastodon
Unidentified American Indian Chief (Silhouette)
Upper Jawbone of Mastodon
Virginia Society for the Promotion of Useful Knowledge
Wasconsca (Silhouette)
Weather Observations
Western Exploration
Wheel Cipher
William Bartram
William Dunbar
William Tatham
Zebulon Pike

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