... fine arts as gardening, painting, architecture, 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 ... 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...

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