Thomas Jefferson: Part II

In my previous post, I tried to convey the humanity behind the historical figure of our third president. I highlighted Jefferson’s proclivities as a polymath—what areas of information concerning the world and all its contents didn’t attract his active interest? An ornithologist, an architect (Monticello and the University of Virginia), an inventor (a wheel cipher, a spherical sundial, a hideaway bed, a two-faced mirror…