Thomas Cooper (1759–1839)
Archival location guide — where this economist’s surviving papers are held, their notable correspondents, and key published sources.
Born 1759 · died 1839
Thomas Cooper was an Anglo-American economist, college president and political philosopher. Cooper was described by Thomas Jefferson as "one of the ablest men in America" and by John Adams as "a learned ingenious scientific and talented madcap." Dumas Malone stated that "modern scientific progress would have been impossible without the freedom of the mind which he championed throughout life." His ideas were taken very seriously in his own time: there were substantial reviews of his writings, and some late eighteenth-century critics of materialism directed their arguments against Cooper, rather than against the better-known Joseph Priestley.
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Where the papers are held
The surviving papers of Thomas Cooper (1759–1839) are held at Louis Round Wilson Library.
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