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Mr. Jefferson and the giant moose: natural history in early America

By Thomas , Dugatkin , Lee Alan;Buffon , Georges-Louis Leclerc;Jefferson

Book information

Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Year
2009
ISBN
0226169146, 9780226169149
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2474446 bytes)
Pages
xii, 166 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm\180
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
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Description

Capturing the essence of the origin and evolution of the so-called "degeneracy debates, " over whether the flora and fauna of America (including Native Americans) were naturally weaker and feebler than species elsewhere in the world, this book chronicles Thomas Jefferson's efforts to counter French conceptions of American degeneracy, culminating in his sending of a stuffed moose to Buffon.--[Source inconnue]. "Dictatorial powers of the botanical gentlemen of Europe" -- The count's degenerate America -- "Noxious vapors and corrupt juices" -- "Not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting" -- "Geniuses which adorn the present age" -- Enter the moose -- Thirty-seven-pound frogs and Patagonian giants -- Extracting the "tapeworm of Europe" from our brain.

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