Books & Articles
Books
Jean-Jacques Rousseau and botany: the salutary science (Winner of The Society for the History of Natural History John Thackray Medal 2013)
(Oxford, Voltaire Foundation, December 2012, ISBN-13: 978-0-7294-1055-7)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The reveries of the solitary walker, botanical writings, and letter to Franquières
Translated and annotated by Charles E. Butterworth, Alexandra Cook, and Terence E. Marshall. Edited by Christopher Kelly
(University Press of New England, 1 jan. 2000, ISBN: 1-58465-007-9)
We botanists should be indebted to…Alexandra Cook, not only for her offering such a complete rendition of Rousseau’s botanical writings…the translations themselves, her marvellously detailed annotations and editing of the botanical writings, and her co-authored introduction.
Taxon 49 (May 2000)
It is splendid to have a definitive translation of these works accompanied by scholarly notes….A fine and fascinating book.
The Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 134 (2000)
Articles & Book Chapters
Jean-Jacques Rousseau S'initie à la botanique: science et art dans la manuscrit des plantes herborisées avec M. Neuhaus
In Bulletin de la société neuchâteloise des sciences naturelles 139: 5-44.
An idea ahead of its time: Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s mobile botanical laboratory
In Expeditions as experiments, M. Klemun and U. Spring (eds), (Palgrave MacMillan, October 2016), 27-49.
Laurent Garcin, M.D. F.R.S.: A forgotten Source for N. L. Burman’s Flora Indica (1768)
In Harvard Papers in Botany 21/1 (July 2016): 31-53.
L’unique pharmacie botanique de Jean-Jacques Rousseau
In Jardins 6 (September 2015): 121-31.
An eighteenth-century plea for sustainable forestry: Ostervald’s Description des montagnes & vallées du pays de Neuchâtel (1764)
In 1650-1850: Ideas, aesthetics, and inquiries in the early-modern era 22 (2015): 257-78.
Le "disciple" critique "le maître": Jean Jacques Rousseau et la nomenclature linnéenne
In Nomenclatures au dix-huitième siècle: la science, ‘langue bien faite’, Denis Reynaud and Philippe Selosse (eds) (Lyon: Presses de l'Aristoloche, 2015), p. 151-165.
La fabrication posthume des fragmens pour un dictionnaire des termes d'usage en botanique et la question de son attribution à Jean-Jacques Rousseau
trans. E. Leborgne and R.S. Kuiper, in Annales de la société Jean-Jacques Rousseau 51 (2013): 93-116.
Le pluralisme taxonomique de Jean-Jacques Rousseau
In Claire Jacquier and Timothée Léchot eds, Rousseau Botaniste, Je vais devenir plante moi-même, Fleurier et Pontarlier: Éditions du Belvédère (2012): 37-56.
La botanique, une passion contre les passions
In Rousseau, passionnément, Musée Jean-Jacques Rousseau Montmorency, Montmorency: Ville de Montmorency (2012): 55-65.
Linnaeus and Chinese plants: a test of the linguistic imperialism thesis
in Notes and Records of the Royal Society 64 (June 2010): 121-138; (first published online September 23 2009), doi: 10.1098/rsnr.2009.0051.
Idées et pratiques scientifiques dans la correspondance botanique de Jean-Jacques Rousseau
in Annales de la société Jean-Jacques Rousseau 47 (October 2008): 265-85.
The septième promenade of the rêveries: a peculiar account of Rousseau's botany?
J.O'Neal, ed., in The Nature of Rousseau's Reveries, special volume of Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century (2008): 11-34.
Botanical exchanges: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the Duchess of Portland
in History of European Ideas 33 (2007): 142-56.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau's anticipation of Humboldt's plant geography
Alexander von Humboldt: From the Americas to the Cosmos. Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies, City University of New York. (2005): 387-401.
Rousseau and the languages of music and botany
Musique et langage chez Rousseau, C. Dauphin, ed., inStudies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 8 (2004): 75-87.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau et les réseaux d'échange botanique
B. Bensaude-Vincent, ed., in Rousseau et les sciences. L'harmattan (2003): 93-114.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau's copy of Albrecht von Haller's historia stirpium indigenarum Helvetiae inchoata (1768)
in Archives of Natural History 30/1 (2003): 149-156.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau and exotic botany
in Eighteenth-Century Life special issue, Exoticism and the Culture of Exploration, R. Maccubbin and C. Knellwolf, eds. 26/3 (Fall 2002): 181-201.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 'terminator' and telos in nature
in Pensée Libre 8 (2001): 310-25.
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
in Reader's Guide to the Social Sciences, London: Fitzroy Dearborn (October 2000): 1436-9.
Politics of nature and voyages of exploration: some purposes and results
in Voyages and Exploration in the North Atlantic from the Middle Ages to the XVIIth Century. 2nd revised ed. Edited by A. Agnarsdottir. Reykjavik, Iceland: University of Iceland Press (2001): 125-138.
Propagating botany: the case of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Transmission of Culture in Western Europe, 1750-1850: Papers Celebrating the Bi-centenary of the Foundation in Geneva of the Bibliothèque britannique. Edited by D. Bickerton and J. Proud. Bern: Peter Lang (1999): 69-94.
Rousseau's 'spectacle de la nature' as counterpoint to the 'theatre du monde': an analysis of the lettre à d'Alembert from the standpoint of Rousseau's botanical entreprise
in Pensée Libre 6 (1997): 23-32.
Reviews
Adrien Paschoud and Nathalie Vuillemin, Penser l’ordre naturel, 1680-1810
Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation, 2012. H-FRANCE, www. h-france.net, forthcoming.
Julia Simon, Rousseau among the moderns: music, aesthetics, politics
State College: Pennsylvania State University Press 2013. Political Theory 44/3 (June 2016): 437-42.
Sue Ann Price, ed., Of Elephants & roses: French natural history, 1790-1830
Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2013. Isis 106/2 (June 2015): 457-8.
Michael Keevak, Becoming Yellow: a short history of racial thinking
Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2011. British journal for the history of science 47/02 (June 2014): 378-9.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Ecrits sur la botanique, Takuya Kobayashi (editor)
Œuvres complètes, vol. XI. Raymond Trousson and Frédéric Eigeldinger (editors). Slatkine, Geneva and Champion, Paris: 2012. Archives of Natural History 40/2 (October 2013): 371-2.
Juliet Wege, Alex George, et. al., Matthew Flinders and his scientific gentlemen
Welshpool DC: Western Australian Museum, 2005. Archives of natural history 35, pt. 2 (2008): 368-9.
Dorinda Outram, The Enlightenment, 2nd edition, new approaches to European history.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005
and William E. Burns, Science in the enlightenment: an encyclopedia
Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2003. British journal for the history of science 40 (March 2007): 137-9.
Jean-Daniel Candaux and Jean-Marc Drouin (eds.), Augustin-Pyramus de Candolle: mémoires et souvenirs (1778-1841)
Bibliothèque d’histoire des sciences, 5. Geneva: Georg Editeur, 2003. British journal for the history of science 38/04 (December 2005): 482-3.
Bruny d’Entrecasteaux, Voyage to Australia and the Pacific 1791-1793
Trans. and ed. E. and M. Duyker. Melbourne: Melbourne Univ. Press, 2001. International journal of maritime history (June 2003): 259-60.
Johann Reinhold Forster, Observations made during a voyage round the world
ed. N. Thomas, H. Guest, and M. Dettelbach. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1996. International journal of maritime history (June 2001): 319-21.
G. Faccarello (ed.), Studies in the history of French political economy: from Bodin to Walras
London: Routledge, 1998. Political Science (December 2000): 200-1. Political Science (December 2000): 200-1.
F. A. Kafker, The Encyclopedists as a group: a collective biography of the authors of the 'Encyclopédie'.
Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 1996. Journal of modern history 71 (June 1999): 471-473.