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An edition of Mr. Jefferson's University (2002)

Mr. Jefferson's University

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In Charlottesville, Virginia, at the University of Virginia, there is today-beneath the irregular rhythms of modern student comings and goings-a severely rhythmic expression of the Enlightenment, a philosophy concretized in brick and timber. The play of one architectural element into another is meant to express the interconnectedness of all knowledge. It is Jefferson's last but not his least achievement, and one of the three things that he put on his own tombstone to be remembered by. In important ways, this architectural complex is a better expression of Jefferson's mind than is his home on the hill overlooking the campus. Chance had a great deal to do with the way Monticello grew up over the years. But everything in the university's structure was planned, to the last detail-a meticulous ordering that is both romantic and quixotic. It is a place of study that itself repays study, and makes on lost world of the 18th century only half lost after all.

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English
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192

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Mr. Jefferson's University
November 15, 2002, National Geographic
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Library of Congress
LD5678.3 .W55 2002, LD5678.3.W55 2002

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Hardcover
Number of pages
192
Dimensions
8 x 5.4 x 0.9 inches
Weight
12 ounces

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OL7805433M
Internet Archive
mrjeffersonsuniv00garr
ISBN 10
0792265319
ISBN 13
9780792265313
LCCN
2002035258
OCLC/WorldCat
50645802
Library Thing
176900
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1676531

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