The Invention of Nature

‘I myself am identical’: Schelling, in Richards 2002, p.134

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‘Prince of Empiricism’: K.J.H. Windischmann to Schelling, 24 March 1806, Werner 2000, p.8.

36

‘quarrelling poles’: AH Geography 1807, p.v.

37

concept of ‘organism’ and interconnectedness: Richards 2002, pp.138, 129ff.

38

a ‘revolution’ in science: AH to F.W.J. Schelling, 1 February 1805, Werner 2000, p.6.

39

‘dry compilation of facts’: AH to Christian Carl Josias Bunsen, 22 March 1835, AH Bunsen Letters 2006, p.29.

40

‘influence of your’: AH to Goethe, 3 January 1810, Goethe Humboldt Letters 1909, p.304; see also AH to Caroline von Wolzogen, 14 May 1806, Goethe AH WH Letters 1876, p.407.

41

‘How I should enjoy’: Goethe 2002, p.222.

42

Goethe ‘devoured’

Essay

: Goethe to Johann Friedrich von Cotta, 8 April 1813, Goethe Natural Science 1989, p.524.

43

Goethe reread

Essay

: Goethe, 17, 18, 19, 20, 28 March 1807, Goethe Diary 1998–2007, vol.3, pt.1, pp.298–9, 301; Goethe to AH, 3 April 1807, Goethe Correspondence 1968–76, vol.3, p.41.

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Goethe and

Naturgemälde

(footnote): Goethe to AH, 3 April 1807, Goethe Correspondence 1968–76, vol.3, p.41; Goethe, 5 May and 3 June 1807, Goethe Diary 1998–2007, vol.3, pt.1, pp.308, 322.

45

Goethe’s lecture on AH: Goethe, 1 April 1807, Goethe Diary 1998–2007, vol.3, pt.1, p.302; Charlotte von Schiller, 1 April 1807, Goethe Encounters 1965–2000, vol.6, p.241; Goethe, Geognostische Vorlesungen, 1 April 1807, Goethe Natural Science 1989, p.540.

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‘With an aesthetic breeze’: Goethe’s review of Humboldt’s

Ideen zu einer Physiognomik der Gewächse

, 31 January 1806,

Jenaer Allgemeine Zeitung

, Goethe Morphologie 1987, p.379.

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German publication

Essay

: Johann Friedrich von Cotta to Goethe, 12 January 1807, Goethe Letters 1980–2000, vol.5, p.215.

48

universities in Prussia: Geier 2010, p.266.

49

‘buried in the ruins’: AH to Christian Gottlieb Heyne, 13 November 1807, ibid., p.254.

50

‘Why did I not stay’: AH to Johann Friedrich von Cotta, 14 February 1807, AH Cotta Letters 2009, p.78.

51

Views of Nature

bestseller: Fiedler and Leitner 2000, pp.38–69.

52

Views of Nature

AH’s favourite: Bruhns 1873, vol.1, p.357.

53

‘glowing womb of the earth’: and following quotes, AH Views 2014, pp.30, 38, 108, 121, 126; AH Aspects 1849, vol.1, pp.3, 20, 189, 216, 224; AH Ansichten 1808, pp.4, 5, 33–4, 140, 298, 316 (quotes are from the different editions).

54

‘poured their red phosphoric light’: AH Aspects 1849, vol.1, p.231; AH Views 2014, p.129; AH Ansichten 1808, pp.329–30.

55

‘melody’ of sentences: AH to Johann Friedrich von Cotta, 21 February 1807, AH Cotta Letters 2009, p.80.

56

annotations

Views of Nature

(footnote): AH Aspects 1849, vol.2, p.112ff.; AH Views 2014, p.201ff.; AH Ansichten 1849, vol.2, p.135 (this is not in the German 1808 edition of

Views of Nature

but similar on p.185).

57

‘inner feelings’: AH Aspects 1849, vol.1, p.208; AH Views 2014, p.117; AH Ansichten 1808, p.284.

58

web of life: AH Aspects 1849, vol.2, pp.7–8; AH Views 2014, pp.157–8; AH Ansichten 1808, p.163ff.

59

‘inner connections of’: AH Ansichten 1808, p.vii (my translation, ‘in den inneren Zusammenhang der Naturkräfte’); AH Aspects 1849, vol.1, p.viii; AH Views 2014, p.25.

60

‘a single picture of’: AH Aspects 1849, vol.1, p.207; AH Views 2014, p.117; AH Ansichten 1808, p.282.

61

AH miserable in Berlin: Beck 1959–61, vol.2, p.16.

62

‘follow me gladly’: AH Views 2014, pp.25–6; AH Aspects 1849, vol.1, p.ix; AH Ansichten 1808, p.viii.

63

‘stormy waves of life’: AH Aspects 1849, vol.1, p.ix; AH Views 2014, p.25; AH Ansichten 1808, p.viii.

64

‘that I plunged’: Goethe to AH, 16 May 1821, Goethe Correspondence 1968–76, vol.3, p.505.

65

‘you believe you are’: François-René de Chateaubriand, in Clark and Lubrich 2012b, p.29.

66

Thoreau and

Views of Nature

: Sattelmeyer 1988, p.207; Thoreau to Spencer Fullerton Baird, 19 December 1853, Thoreau Correspondence 1958, p.310; Thoreau referred to it in

The Maine Woods

and

Excursions

among other works.

67

‘this sky full of cobwebs’: Emerson 1959–72, vol.3, p.213; for Emerson,

Views of Nature

and AH see also Emerson in 1849, Emerson 1960–1992, vol.11, pp.91, 157; Harding 1967, p.143; Walls 2009, p.251ff.

68

Darwin and

Views of Nature

: Darwin to Catherine Darwin, 5 July 1832, Darwin Correspondence, vol.1, p.247.

69

Verne and AH: Schifko 2010; Clark and Lubrich 2012, pp.24–5, 170–75, 191, 204–5, 214–23.

70

‘What could I do’: Jules Verne’s

Captain Grant’s Children

(1865–7).

71

AH and Captain Nemo: Jules Verne’s

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

, 1869–70, Clark and Lubrich 2012, pp.174, 191–2.

72

‘flourishing potato fields’: AH to C.G.J. Jacobi, 21 November 1841, Biermann and Schwarz 2001b, no page numbers.

73

‘I don’t approve of’: WH to CH, WH CH Letters 1910–16, vol.4, p.188.

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