...imitation of the Deity. With reference to Rittenhouse's Orrery, Jefferson declared: "As an artist he has exhibited as great a proof of mechanical genius as...than any man who has lived from the creation to this day."65 From Rittenhouse's achievement Paine inferred the metaphysical truth of which so many late...

...Jefferson with pardonable pride and exaggeration wrote of him in his Notes on the State of Virginia: "He has not indeed made a world; but he has by imitation...than any man who has lived from the creation to this day."1 His improvements in the telescope constituted another practical service to astronomy for which...

..."A Mechanic," was exorbitantly praised for his contributions to astronomy. According to Jefferson, "he has by imitation approached nearer its Maker than any man who has lived from creation to this day." Jefferson referred to Rittenhouse's famous orrery, an ingenious replica of the...

...without credit. The astronomer David Rittenhouse, of whom Jefferson had written, "as an artist he has exhibited as great a proof of mechanical genius as the world has produced," had improved the Franklin stove by simplifying it. In the 1790s, it replaced the Franklin...

...his clocks, that Jefferson described him in the Notes as "an artist" (that is, an artisan), who "has exhibited as great a proof of mechanical genius as the world has ever produced." In designing and constructing the orrery, or model of the solar system, Jefferson concluded, Rittenhouse...

...astronomer living: that in genius he must be the first, because he is self-taught. As an artist he has exhibited as great a proof of mechanical genius as...any man who has lived from the creation to this day. 6 Jefferson's American Pantheon had different admission standards from ours. For him, Franklin won...

...astronomer living: that in genius he must be the first, because he is self-taught. As an artist he has exhibited as great a proof of mechanical genius as...than any man who has lived from the creation to this day.'9 In this passage, it is the mechanical artist, David Rittenhouse, who is Jefferson's central...

...astronomer living: that in genius he must be the first, because he is self-taught. As an artist he has exhibited as great a proof of mechanical genius as...than any man who has lived from the creation to this day.9 As in philosophy and war, so in government, in oratory, in painting, in the plastic art, we might...

...enthusiasm in their originals by those who can read the originals, and in translations by those who cannot. mechanical genius as the world has ever produced....man who has lived from the creation to this day"". As in philosophy and war, so in government, in oratory, in painting, in the plastic art, we might shew...

...astronomer living: that in genius lie must be the first because he is self-taught. As an artist he has exhibited as great a proof of mechanical genius as...than any man who has lived from the creation to this day."21' Jefferson considered certain portions of the abbe Raynal's account of the United States, "worthless."...