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Thomas Jefferson's Battle for Science: Bias, Truth, and a Mighty Moose!
By ANDERSON, Beth
- ISBN
- 9781635926200
- Publisher
- Astra Calkins Creek
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School Library Journal
Starred Review on September 20, 2024 | Nonfiction - Elementary
K-Gr 4—Thomas Jefferson loved to observe the natural world and meticulously took notes on it. However, when a French author, Count Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon, published an encyclopedia of the American natural world, Jefferson was outraged. The French author had never visited America, and yet he presented America's wildlife as inferior in his book. Along wit...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
