The Invention of Nature

Illustration Credits

Illustrations within the text

© Alamy: 2.3, 12.2/Interfoto; 14.2/Heritage Image Partnership Ltd; 17.2/Lebrecht Music and Arts Photo Library. René Binet, Esquisses Décoratives (c.1905): 22.4 left. © bpk/Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin: 15.2. Catalogue souvenir de l’Exposition Universelle 1900 Paris: 22.2 left. © Collection of Museo Nacional de Colombia/Registro1204/photo Oscar Monsalve: 7.2/Alexander von Humboldt, Geografia de las plantas cerca del Ecuador (1803). Courtesy of Concord Museum, Massachusetts: 19.1, 19.2. Ernst-Haeckel-Haus, Jena: 22.1. Herman Klencke, Alexander von Humboldt’s Leben und Wirken, Reisen und Wissen (1870):1.1, 3.3, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 7.1, 16.1, 16.2, 20.4. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington DC: 3.2, 8.2, 21.1, 23.4. By permission of the Linnean Society of London: 3.1/Martin Hendriksen Vahl, Symbolae Botanicae (1790–4); 22.3 right, 22.5 right/Ernst Haeckel, Kunstformen der Natur (1899–1904). Benjamin C. Maxham: 19.3/daguerreotype, 1856. Ministerio de Cultura del Ecuador, Quito: 3.4. John Muir Papers/Holt-Atherton Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library, Stockton, California © 1984 Muir-Hanna Trust and courtesy of The Bancroft Library/University of California, Berkeley: 23.1, 23.2, 23.3. Private Collections: 4.3, 9.1, 20.3. © Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin: 10.1. Wellcome Library, London: prl.img1, 4.2, 7.3, 8.1, 12.1/Alexander von Humboldt, Vues des Cordillères, 2 vols (1810–13); prl.img2/Heinrich Berghaus, The Physical Atlas (1845); 1.2; 1.3/Alexander von Humboldt, Versuch über die gereizte Muskel- und Nervenfaser (1797); 2.1; 2.2; 4.1; 6.1, 6.2, 8.3/Alcide D. d’Orbingy, Voyage pittoresque dans les deux Amériques (1836); 9.2; 9.3; 9.4; 10.2; 11.1; 13.1, 14.1, 20.3/Traugott Bromme, Atlas zu Alex. v. Humboldt’s Kosmos (1851); 13.2; 15.1; 16.3; 17.1/Charles Darwin, Journal of Researches (1902); 17.3/Charles Darwin, Journal of Researches (1845); 18.1; 20.1/E.T. Hamy, Aimé Bonpland, médecin et naturaliste, explorateur de l’Amérique du Sud (1906); 20.2.

Colour plates

© Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin: ins.5 above/akg-images. © Alamy: ins.6 below/Stocktreck Images Inc; ins.11 below/FineArt; ins.13 below/Pictorial Press Ltd; ins.15 below/World History Archive. © bpk/Stiftung Preussische Schlösser und Gärten Berlin-Brandenburg: ins.12 above/photo Gerhard Murza. © Humboldt-Universität Berlin: ins.7/Alexander von Humboldt, Geographie der Pflanzen in den Tropen-Ländern, ein Naturgemälde der Anden (1807), photo Bridgeman Images. By permission of the Linnean Society of London: ins.14 above/Ernst Haeckel, Kunstformen der Natur (1899–1904). Wellcome Library, London: ins.1, ins.3, ins.8 above/Alexander von Humboldt, Vues des Cordillères (1810–13); ins.9 below/Traugott Bromme, Atlas zu Alex. v. Humboldt’s Kosmos (1851); ins.10 above/Heinrich Berghaus, The Physical Atlas (1845).