... , and music. Jefferson added a further dimension to Bacon's scheme by creating forty- four chapters, as he termed them, that identified specific subjects. Some chap- ters dealt with areas such as chemistry that were unknown in Bacon's time. Jefferson saw this elaborate arrangement not as a rigid system but as a flexible model adaptable to the exigencies of time and circumstance. Since during his ... Philosophy. To pursue these questions is to confront Jefferson's world and his world view. History, the first of his three major categories, was composed of all known facts about the physical...

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