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 On the functions of the nervous system in vertebrated animals
Thomas Jefferson's attested relationship to On the functions of the nervous system in vertebrated animals.
Thomas Jefferson is attested as having read this work by M. Flourens.
Evidence ledger
- First-person reading testimony (Explicit first-person current reading: 'I have been lately reading a most extraordinary book, that of M. Flourens on the functions of the nervous system in vertebrated animals.' Author and subject in-passage; proposed as a new Work.). Self-report reliability discount 0.9: Current and engaged ('I have been lately reading a most extraordinary book...') with substantive uptake of its experimental method ('He proves by too many, and too accurate [experiments]...'); no flattery context (author a stranger).