... such figures. Consequently, both Law Ecclesiastical and Geometry are found under Philos- ophy. The catalog that Jefferson sent to Washington was particularly important because it presented the books within the forty-four chapters in a meaningful order. This order Jefferson described as "sometimes analytical, sometimes chronological, & sometimes a combination of both." This ordering of ... the chap- ters and of the individual books within each chapter is a detailed and telling product of Jefferson's distinctive imagination at work and has been aptly de- scribed by Arthur Bestor as "a blu...

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