Citizen Science in the Chesapeake on the Eve of the American Revolution
June 9 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Free
Beginning with the first European settlement at Jamestown, Virginia in 1607, until the 1775 battles at Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts, the Chesapeake region inspired interest among soldiers, merchants, and gentleman scholars in the Old World. Self-trained, amateur scientists like Thomas Jefferson fed that interest by committing their observations to paper. They sent letters and samples to correspondents in the Old World, most of whom held university degrees, at a time when education focused on classical literature and philosophy, theology, and the law.
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