Jean- Jacques Rousseau and botany. The salutary science. 2012. (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Centry,2012:12). XXII, 440 p. gr8vo. Hardcover.

In this richly illustrated study the author provides an unprecedentedinsight into Rousseau's study and practice of botany. Not simply anintellectual pursuit, it became part of his physical and psychologicalself - discipline, a precursor of today's 'environmental therapy' -Contents: Introduction/ The 'remède dans le mal'/ The chemicalbackground/ Helvetia mediatrix: the atmosphere of eighteenth - centurySwiss science/ Patriotism in a new key: Rousseau encounters Neuchatelbotany/ Sex, plants and classification/ 'Se tracer un plan a sa guise':Rousseau and the natural method/ Modes of mediation: botanical booksand binomial names/ The herbarium as boundary object/ A forged legacy:the strange fates of Rousseau's botanical works/ Reading Rousseau onbotany at the end of nature/ Rousseau's botanical sources/ Rousseau'sbotanical correspondants and contacts/ Rousseau's herbaria: summarytable/ Bibliography/ Index.