The Invention of Nature by Wulf, Andrea -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

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Prologue

PART I. DEPARTURE: EMERGING IDEAS

1. Beginnings 2. Imagination and Nature: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Humboldt 3. In Search of a Destination

PART II. ARRIVAL: COLLECTING IDEAS

4. South America 5. The Llanos and the Orinoco 6. Across the Andes 7. Chimborazo 8. Politics and Nature: Thomas Jefferson and Humboldt

PART III. RETURN: SORTING IDEAS

9. Europe 10. Berlin 11. Paris 12. Revolutions and Nature: Simón Bolívar and Humboldt 13. London 14. Going in Circles: Maladie Centrifuge

PART IV. INFLUENCE: SPREADING IDEAS

15. Return to Berlin 16. Russia 17. Evolution and Nature: Charles Darwin and Humboldt 18. Humboldt’s Cosmos 19. Poetry, Science and Nature: Henry David Thoreau and Humboldt

PART V. NEW WORLDS: EVOLVING IDEAS

20. The Greatest Man Since the Deluge 21. Man and Nature: George Perkins Marsh and Humboldt 22. Art, Ecology and Nature: Ernst Haeckel and Humboldt 23. Preservation and Nature: John Muir and Humboldt

Epilogue Acknowledgements

Illustration Credits Notes A Note on Humboldt’s Publications Sources and Bibliography Index Illustrations

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