1. Thomas jefferson
Though he was then in serious financial straits, Jefferson's primary purpose was to assure that the nation's legislators had access to the best sources of informa- tion and ideas, for he said that he would accept whatever price and terms of payment Congress thought appropriate as long as the entire collection was pur- chased. ... Memory was divided into four parts: natural (which consisted of technology and information about inan- imate and animate things), civil, ecclesiastical, and literary. ... In the section devoted to History, Jefferson relegated Bacon's major divisio...
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