...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...

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...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...

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...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...