The Invention of Nature

had ‘always accompanied’: Goethe to AH, 16 May 1821, Goethe Correspondence 1968–76, vol.3, p.505.

46

AH’s letters invigorating: Goethe to AH, 24 January 1824, Bratranek 1876, p.317; AH to Goethe, 6 February 1806, Goethe Correspondence 1968–76, vol.2, p.559; Goethe, 16 March 1807, 30 December 1809, 18 January 1810, 20 June 1816, Goethe Diary 1998–2007, vol.3, pt. 1, p.298; vol.4, pt.1, pp.100, 111; vol.5, pt.1, p.381; AH to Goethe, 16 April 1821, Goethe AH WH Letters 1876, p.315; Goethe, 16 March 1823, 3 May 1823, 20 August 1825, Goethe’s Day 1982–96, vol.7, pp.235, 250, 526.

47

everybody lived too far apart: Goethe to Johannn Peter Eckermann, 3 May 1827, Goethe Eckermann 1999, p.608.

48

‘on my isolated path’: Ibid., p.609.

49

AH’s change from Neptunist to Vulcanist: Pieper 2006, pp.76–81; Hölder 1994, pp.63–73.

50

‘a single volcanic furnace’: AH Aspects 1849, vol.2, p.222; AH Views 2014, p.247; AH Ansichten 1849, vol.2, p.263; see also AH, ‘Über den Bau und die Wirkungsart der Vulcane in den verschiedenen Erdstrichen’, 24 January 1823, and Pieper 2006, p.77ff.

51

examples graphic and terrifying: AH Aspects 1849, vol.2, pp.222–3; AH Views 2014, p.248; AH Ansichten 1849, vol.2, pp.263–4.

52

‘a subterranean force’: AH Cosmos 1845–52, vol.1, p.285; AH Kosmos 1845–50, vol.1, p.311; see also AH Geography 2009, p.67; AH Geography 1807, p.9.

53

like ‘savages’: Goethe to Carl Friedrich Zelter, 7 November 1829, Goethe Correspondence 1968–76, vol.4, p.350.

54

It was ‘absurd’: Goethe, 6 March 1828, Goethe’s Day 1982–96, vol.8, p.38.

55

‘rigid and proud’: Goethe to Carl Friedrich Zelter, 5 October 1831, Goethe Correspondence 1968–76, vol.4, p.454. 000 ‘cerebral system’: Ibid

56

‘I appear to myself’: Goethe to WH, 1 December 1831, Goethe Correspondence 1968–76, vol.4, p.462.

57

‘I know where my happiness’: AH to WH, 5 November 1829, AH Letters Russia 2009, p.207.

58

‘work together scientifically’: AH, Aus Meinem Leben (1769–1850), in Biermann 1987, p.116.

59

‘the mysterious and wonderful’: WH to Karl Gustav von Brinkmann, Geier 2010, p.282.

60

‘language was the formative’: WH 1903–36, vol.7, pt.1, p.53; see also vol.4, p.27.

61

‘image of an organic’: Ibid., vol.7, pt.1, p.45.

62

to India through Russia: AH to Alexander von Rennenkampff, 7 January 1812, AH Letters Russia 2009, p.62.

63

Cancrin’s request for information from AH: Cancrin to AH, 27 August 1827, ibid., p.67ff.; Beck 1983, p.21ff.

64

‘most burning desire’: AH to Cancrin, 19 November 1827, AH Letters Russia 2009, p.76.

65

‘the sweetest images’: AH to Cancrin, 19 November 1827, ibid.

66

AH confirms his vitality: AH to Cancrin, 10 January 1829, ibid., p.88.

67

Tsar invites AH to Russia: Cancrin to AH, 17 December 827, ibid., pp.78–9.

Chapter 16: Russia

1

AH left Berlin: Beck 1983, p.35.

2

plants, landscape and animals in Siberia: AH to WH, 21 June 1829, AH Letters Russia 2009, p.138; Rose 1837–42, vol.1, p.386ff.

3

more or less ‘ordinary’: AH to WH, 21 June 1829, AH Letters Russia 2009, p.138.

4

‘not as delightful’: Ibid.

5

‘life in wild nature’: AH to Cancrin, 10 January 1829, ibid., p.86.

6

fast coaches: Beck 1983, p.76.

7

sleeping in carriage: AH to WH, 8 June and 21 June 1829, AH Letters Russia 2009, pp.132, 138

8

Count Polier: AH to WH, 8 June 1829, AH Letters Russia 2009, p.132; Beck 1983, p.55.

9

AH’s equipment: Cancrin to AH, 30 January 1829; AH to Ehrenberg, March 1829, AH Letters Russia 2009, pp.91, 100; Beck 1983, p.27.

10

‘loving and affectionate’: CH to August von Hedemann, 17 March 1829, WH CH Letters 1910–16, vol.7, p.342; for CH’s death, see Gall 2011, pp.379–80.

11

AH had to avoid war zone: AH to Michail Semënovic Voroncov, 19 May 1829 and AH to Cancrin, 10 January 1829, AH Letters Russia 2009, pp.86, 119.

12

‘advancement of the’: Cancrin to AH, 30 January 1829, ibid., p.93.

13

Russia, manufacturing and ores: Suckow 1999, p.162.

14

AH and diamonds: AH to Cancrin, 15 September 1829 and 5 November 1829; AH to WH, 21 November 1829, AH Letters Russia 2009, pp.185, 204–5, 220. It was the sandstone Itacolumite that indicated diamonds. AH later also correctly predicted gold, platinum and diamonds in South Carolina – and in California.

15

AH and magnifying glass: AH Fragments Asia 1832, p.5.

16

‘crazy Prussian prince’: Cossack in Perm, June 1829, Beck 1959, p.103.

17

Polier and diamonds: Polier to Cancrin, Report about diamonds, Rose 1837–42, vol.1, p.356ff.; Beck 1983, p.81ff.; AH to WH, 21 November 1829, AH Letters Russia 2009, p.220.

18

thirty-seven diamonds in Russia: Beck 1959–61, vol.2, p.117.

19

AH’s predictions like magic: Beck 1983, p.82.

20

‘true El Dorado’: AH to Cancrin, 15 September 1829, AH Letters Russia 2009, p.185.

21

‘to bring the laments’: AH Cuba, 2011, pp.142–3.

22

‘poorer provinces’: AH to Cancrin, 10 January 1829; for Cancrin’s reply, see Cancrin to AH, 10 July 1829, AH Letters Russia 2009, pp.86, 93.

23

‘conditions of the lower’: AH to Cancrin, 17 July 1829, ibid., p.148.

24

Yekaterinburg: Beck 1983, p.71ff.

25

‘like an invalid’: AH to WH, 21 June 1829, see also 8 June and 14 July 1829, ibid., pp.132, 138, 146.

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