Positive reconstruction · reader-scoped, not an inferred-absence lacuna
This reconstruction covers the readable fraction of Thomas Jefferson's formation -- attested reading and writing only, not the whole of a life.
Thomas Jefferson and Novum Organum
Thomas Jefferson's attested relationship to Novum Organum.
Thomas Jefferson is attested as having owned this work by Francis Bacon.
Evidence ledger
- Sowerby's catalogue documents that Jefferson's library included works of Francis Bacon, whom Jefferson called one of the three greatest men who ever lived.