The Invention of Nature

‘a revolutionary and’: AH to Friedrich Althaus, 5 August 1852, AH Althaus Memoirs 1861, p.96; see also AH to Varnhagen, 26 December 1845, Beck 1959, p.215.

20

AH frustrated about politics: AH to Varnhagen, 29 May 1848, Beck 1959, p.238.

21

‘organism and the

unity

’: AH to Maximillian II, 3 November 1848, AH Friedrich Wilhelm IV Letters 2013, p.403.

22

prospects gloomy: AH to Johann Georg von Cotta, 16 September 1848, AH Cotta Letters 2009, p.337.

23

‘dirt and clay’: King Friedrich Wilhelm IV to Joseph von Radowitz, 23 December 1848, Lautemann and Schlenke 1980, p.221ff.

24

‘a dog collar’: King Friedrich Wilhelm IV to King Ernst August von Hanover, April 1849, Jessen 1968, p.310ff.

25

AH disappointed about politics: AH to Johann Georg Cotta, 7 April 1849 and 21 April 1849, AH Cotta Letters 2009, p.367; Leitner 2008, p.232; AH to Friedrich Althaus, 23 December 1849, AH Althaus Memoirs 1861, p.28; AH to Gauß, 22 February 1851, AH Gauß Letters 1977, p.100; AH to Bunsen, 27 March 1852, AH Bunsen Letters 2006, p.146.

26

‘pest of slavery’: AH to Oscar Lieber, 1849, AH Letters USA 2004, p.265.

27

‘the old Spanish Conquista’: AH to Johann Flügel, 19 June 1850; for AH and Mexican war, see John Lloyd Stephens, 2 July 1847 and AH to Robert Walsh, 8 December 1847, ibid., pp.252, 268, 529–30.

28

‘worn-out hope’: AH to Arago, 9 November 1849, quoted in AH Geography 2009, p.xi.

29

‘endless oscillations’: AH to Heinrich Berghaus, August 1848, AH Spiker Letters 2007, p.25.

30

excitement for revolutions wearing off: Friedrich Daniel Bassermann about AH, 14 November 1848, Beck 1969, p.264.

31

‘cosmical phaenomena’: AH Cosmos 1845–52, vol.3, p.i; AH Kosmos 1845–50, vol.3, p.3.

32

‘master of the materials’: AH to Bunsen, 27 March 1852, AH Bunsen Letters 2006, p.146.

33

‘those half dead are’: AH to du Bois-Reymond, 21 March 1852, AH du Bois-Reymond Letters 1997, p.124; see also AH to Johann Georg von Cotta, 3 February 1853, AH Cotta Letters 2009, p.497.

34

‘goblin on his’: AH to to Johann Georg von Cotta, 4 September 1852, AH Cotta Letters 2009, p.484.

35

‘Micro-Cosmos’: AH to Johann Georg von Cotta, 16 September and 2 November 1848; and Johann Georg von Cotta to AH, 21 February 1849, ibid., pp.338, 345, 355.

36

‘it remains for the third’: AH Cosmos 1845–52, vol.3, p.8; AH Kosmos 1845–50, vol.3, p.9; see also Fiedler and Leitner 2000, p.391.

37

O’Leary visited AH: Daniel O’Leary, 1853, Beck 1969, p.265; AH to O’Leary, April 1853, MSS141, Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango, Bogotá.

38

‘for the sake of seeing’: Bayard Taylor, 1856, Taylor 1860, p.455.

39

AH’s attitude to Americans (footnote): Ibid., p.445; Rossiter W. Raymond, A Visit to Humboldt, January 1859, AH Letters USA 2004, p.572.

40

‘usual benevolence’: Carl Vogt, January 1845, Beck 1959, p.201; see also AH to Dirichlet, 27 July 1852, AH Dirichlet Letters 1982, p.104; Biermann and Schwarz 1999a, pp.189, 196.

41

young men like his children: AH to Dirichlet, 24 July 1845, AH Dirichlet Letters 1982, p.67.

42

‘one of the most wonderful’: Carl Friedrich Gauß, Terra 1955, p.336.

43

AH and elections at Académie: Carl Vogt, January 1845, Beck 1959, p.202ff.

44

‘and learned a lot from’: Ibid., p.205.

45

instructions for Hooker: AH to Joseph Dalton Hooker, 30 September 1847, reprinted in

London Journal for Botany

, vol.6, 1847, pp.604–7; Hooker 1918, vol.1, p.218.

46

‘shamrock’: AH Friedrich Wilhelm IV Letters 2013, p.72; see also AH to Bunsen, 20 February 1854, AH Bunsen Letters 2006, p.175; Finkelstein 2000, p.187ff.; AH Friedrich Wilhelm IV Letters 2013, pp.72–3.

47

‘nothing in my life’: AH Central Asia 1844, vol.1, p.611.

48

AH’s instructions for artists: For Johann Moritz Rugendas, Eduard Hildebrandt and Ferdinand Bellermann, Werner 2013, pp.101ff., 121, 250ff.

49

long list of plants for artist: AH’s instructions to Johann Moritz Rugendas, 1830, in a letter to Karl Schinkel, ibid., p.102.

50

‘real landscapes’: Ibid.

51

‘business of deciphering’: Carl Vogt, January 1845, Beck 1959, p.201.

52

‘microscopic-hieroglyphic lines’: AH to Heinrich Christian Schumacher, 2 March 1836, AH Schumacher Letters 1979, p.52.

53

yearly 2,500–3,000 letters: AH to Edward Young, 3 June 1855, AH Letters USA 2004, p.347; AH to Johann Georg von Cotta, 5 February 1849 and 2 May 1855, AH Cotta Letters 2009, pp.349, 558.

54

‘ludicrous correspondence’: AH to du Bois-Reymond, 18 January 1850, AH du Bois-Reymond Letters 1997, p.101; Bayard Taylor, 1856, Taylor 1860, p.471; Varnhagen Diary, 24 April 1858, AH Varnhagen Letters 1860, p.311.

55

Bonpland in South America: Schneppen 2002, p.21ff.; Bonpland to AH, 7 June 1857, AH Bonpland Letters 2004, p.136.

56

AH sent his books: AH to Bonpland, 1843; Bonpland to AH, 25 December 1853 and 27 October 1854, ibid., pp.110, 114–15, 120.

57

‘We survive’: AH to Bonpland, 4 October 1853; see also AH to Bonpland, 1843, ibid., pp.108–10, 113.

58

‘secret feelings of one’s’: Bonpland to AH, 2 September 1855; see also Bonpland to AH, 2 October 1854, ibid., pp.131, 133.

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