Atlas of Elementary Botany by Jean Jacques
Atlas of Elementary Botany by Jean Jacques
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Atlas of Elementary Botany by Jean Jacques

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  • Format: Paperback
  • Main subject: Nature and the natural world: general interest
  • Genre / subject: Natural history
  • Author: Jean-jacques Rousseau
  • Audience: Adults

About the book

Atlas of Elementary Botany by Jean Jacques by Jean-jacques Rousseau is a natural history book for adult readers.

Explore the natural world through Jean-Jacques Rousseau's letters on botany-a beautifully written reflection on plants, nature, and philosophy by one of the Enlightenment's greatest thinkers. Whether on his philosophical walks or his bucolic wanderings: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, a Swiss-born philosopher, writer, and composer whose works profoundly influenced the Enlightenment and the French Revolution, always portrayed a deep passion for plant collecting.

Between 1771 and 1774, he composed eight letters offering lessons in botany, addressed to Madame Delessert and destined to teach her young daughter Madelon. These letters constitute the thinker's final work, alongside Reveries of a Solitary Walker, and reverberated throughout Europe in the early nineteenth century. Rousseau's project was much more than a simple lesson in pedagogy; it is, rather, a genuine invitation to observe plants.

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