University of Southern California Notes on the State of Virginia Book Review

1.http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/metabo…

Write a two page book review of Georges-Louis Leclerc Comte de Buffon’s Natural History: General and Particular in which you (1) summarize the text, (2) say something about the author and the context, (3) focus on a section of the text you find particularly interesting, (4) reflect critically on the text. Pleasure support your review by quoting the text at least once.

2http://web.archive.org/web/20080914030942/http://e…

. Write a two page book review of Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia in which you (1) summarize the text, (2) say something about the author and the context, (3) focus on a section of the text you find particularly interesting, (4) reflect critically on the text. Pleasure support your review by quoting the text at least once.

3 https://archive.org/details/systemofvegeta01linn

Write a two page book review of Carolus Linnaeus, A system of vegetables in which you (1) summarize the text, (2) say something about the author and the context, (3) focus on a section of the text you find particularly interesting, (4) reflect critically on the text. Pleasure support your review by quoting the text at least once..

4. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/4…

Write a two page book review of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Letters on the elements of botany. Addressed to a lady (introduction, letter 1 and 2) in which you (1) summarize the text, (2) say something about the author and the context, (3) focus on a section of the text you find particularly interesting, (4) reflect critically on the text. Pleasure support your review by quoting the text at least once.

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Write a two page book review of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Zoological Philosophy or Exposition