Atlas of Elementary Botany by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
$60.01
- Hardcover
128 pages
- Release Date
28 June 2025
Summary
Rousseau’s Botanical Reverie: A Journey into Nature’s Poetry
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 de…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780764369520 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0764369520 |
| Series: | Atlas Series |
| Author: | Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Karin Doering-Froger, Marc Jeanson |
| Publisher: | Schiffer Publishing Ltd |
| Imprint: | Schiffer Publishing Ltd |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 28 June 2025 |
| Weight: | 513g |
| Dimensions: | 267mm x 191mm |
About The Author
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) was a Swiss-born philosopher, writer, and composer whose works profoundly influenced the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. Known for The Social Contract and Emile, he championed individual freedom, direct democracy, and education reform, advocating that society should align with the natural goodness of humanity.
Marc Jeanson is a botanist and the former director of the National Herbarium at the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris and currently serves as botanical director of the Majorelle Garden in Marrakech, Morocco. He is the author of Botaniste (Grasset, 2019).
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