The Invention of Nature

Epilogue

1

Boston orator: Louis Agassiz, 14 September 1869,

New York Times

, 15 September 1869.

2

bonfire in Cleveland: Reported in

New York Times

on 4 April 1918, Nichols 2006, p.409; centennial Cleveland,

New York Herald

, 15 September 1869.

3

Cincinnati and anti-German sentiment: Nichols 2006, p.411.

4

‘severe, pervasive and’: IPCC, Fifth Assessment Synthesis Report, 1 November 2014, p.7.

5

‘There is in fact no’: Wendell Berry, ‘It all Turns on Affection’, Jefferson Lecture 2012,

http://www.neh.gov/about/awards/jefferson-lecture/wendell-e-berry-lecture

.

6

‘mankind’s mischief’: AH, February 1800, AH Diary 2000, p.216.

7

‘barren’ and ‘ravaged’: AH, 9–27 November 1801, Popayán, AH Diary 1982, p.313.

8

‘fountain with many’: Goethe to Johann Peter Eckermann, 12 December 1826, Goethe and Eckermann 1999, p.183.

A Note on Humboldt’s Publications

1

A Note on Humboldt’s Publications: If not referenced otherwise the information on Humboldt’s publications is based on

Alexander von Humboldts Schriften. Bibliographie der selbständig erschienenen Werke

(Fiedler and Leitner 2000).

2

AH never saw German edition: AH to Cotta, 20 January 1840, AH Cotta Letters 2009, pp.223–4.

3

‘the most prominent work’:

Journal of the Royal Geographical Society,

1843, vol.13, Fiedler and Leitner 2000, p.359.

4

‘It had to be done’: AH to Heinrich Christian Schumacher, 22 May 1843, AH Schumacher Letters 1979, p.112.

5

‘owners of East India’: AH to Johann Georg von Cotta, 16 March 1849, AH Cotta Letters 2009, p.360.

6

‘Book of Nature’: AH to Varnhagen, 24 October 1834, AH Varnhagen Letters 1860, p.19; my translation from the German edition AH Varnhagen Letters German 1860, p.13.