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CLAUDIUS CROZET

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From: Roanoke Times & World News
Date: 20050313
Author:Duncan Adams

Thomas Jefferson wrote to Claudius Crozet in 1821 to thank him for the gift of Crozet's descriptive geometry textbook.

Jefferson wrote, "We are sometimes disposed to think with regret that we have been born an age too soon for the luminous advance of sciences of which we see the dawn."

For Dan Mahon, greenway coordinator for Albemarle County, Crozet was a Renaissance man - like Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and others of the era. "I don't know what people were eating in their cereal bowls back then," Mahon said.

Benoit Claudius Crozet was born either in late 1789 or ...

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