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Book Chapter: An idea ahead of its time: Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s mobile botanical laboratory
Title | An idea ahead of its time: Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s mobile botanical laboratory |
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Issue Date | 2016 |
Publisher | Palgrave MacMillan |
Citation | An idea ahead of its time: Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s mobile botanical laboratory. In Klemun, M & Spring, U (Eds.), Expeditions as experiments: Practising Observation and Documentation, p. 27-49. London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2016 How to Cite? |
Abstract | Despite his polemics against the sciences, Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) pursues plant studies experimentally during expeditions on foot. While he rejects the experimental science of chemistry in favour of botany, this rejection of chemistry does not entail a rejection of experimentation. Rather, Rousseau objects to the avarice with which he believed chemistry was contaminated. Yet, despite its association with a discredited science, the chemistry laboratory inspires Rousseau’s declaration that the fields adorned with flowers provide the botanist’s “only laboratory”. Proceeding from an eighteenth-century understanding of “experiment” as “test”, Rousseau and his collaborators test others’ reports during their botanical expeditions; (2) use instruments as aids to the senses, and (3) carefully organize the work to be done. These botanical expeditions are likewise experimental in their open-endedness. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/215988 |
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dc.contributor.author | Cook, GA | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-08-21T13:47:32Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2015-08-21T13:47:32Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2016 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | An idea ahead of its time: Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s mobile botanical laboratory. In Klemun, M & Spring, U (Eds.), Expeditions as experiments: Practising Observation and Documentation, p. 27-49. London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2016 | - |
dc.identifier.isbn | 978-1-137-58105-1 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/215988 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Despite his polemics against the sciences, Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) pursues plant studies experimentally during expeditions on foot. While he rejects the experimental science of chemistry in favour of botany, this rejection of chemistry does not entail a rejection of experimentation. Rather, Rousseau objects to the avarice with which he believed chemistry was contaminated. Yet, despite its association with a discredited science, the chemistry laboratory inspires Rousseau’s declaration that the fields adorned with flowers provide the botanist’s “only laboratory”. Proceeding from an eighteenth-century understanding of “experiment” as “test”, Rousseau and his collaborators test others’ reports during their botanical expeditions; (2) use instruments as aids to the senses, and (3) carefully organize the work to be done. These botanical expeditions are likewise experimental in their open-endedness. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | Palgrave MacMillan | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Expeditions as experiments: Practising Observation and Documentation | - |
dc.title | An idea ahead of its time: Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s mobile botanical laboratory | - |
dc.type | Book_Chapter | - |
dc.identifier.email | Cook, GA: cookga@hkucc.hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Cook, GA=rp01219 | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1057/978-1-137-58106-8_2 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 250203 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 27 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 49 | - |
dc.publisher.place | London | - |