The Invention of Nature

Charles X, King of France

Chateaubriand, François-René, Vicomte de, 10.1, 11.1

Chimborazo (volcano, Ecuador): AH climbs, prl.1, prl.2, prl.3, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 10.1; pictured, 7.3, 12.1; AH sketches, 7.4, 10.2; and Naturgemälde, 7.5, 10.3; Bolívar on, 12.2, 12.3

China: AH crosses border into

Church, Frederic Edwin: The Heart of the Andes (painting)

cinchona tree, 7.1, 21.1

Ciudad Bolívar see Angostura

Clark, William, 8.1, 19.1

climate: AH on science of, 14.1, 18.1

climate change: and human intervention, 4.1, 4.2, 16.1; UN report on, bm1.1

Colbert, Jean-Baptiste

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor: influenced by AH, prl.1, 13.1; on oneness with nature, 2.1; attends Davy’s lectures, 11.1; opposes scientific method, 19.1

colonialism: AH condemns, prl.1, 8.1, 9.1, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2, 16.1; and effect on environment, prl.2, 4.1, 8.2; Spanish, 3.1, 3.2, 4.2, 8.3, 9.2, 11.1, 12.2, 13.3, 14.1, 16.2, 16.3, 20.1; and slavery, 4.3, 8.4, bm1.1; and treatment of indigenous peoples, 5.1; Jefferson opposes, 8.5, 12.3; Bolívar rebels against, 12.4, 12.5, 12.6, 12.7, 14.2, 15.1, 20.2; see also India

Como, Lake (Italy)

Concord, Massachusetts, 19.1, 19.2

Condamine, Charles-Marie de la, 6.1, 10.1

Confederation of the Rhine

Constantinople: Marsh in

Cook, Captain James, 1.1, 6.1

Copernicus, Nicolaus, prl.1, 2.1

Cosmos. A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe (AH): title, prl.1, 18.1; international contributions to, 18.2; writing and organization, 18.3, 18.4, 20.1, 20.2, 20.3; on dynamic change, 18.5; publication, 18.6, 18.7, 20.4, 20.5, 20.6; contents, 18.8, 22.1; Darwin reads, 18.9; English translations, 18.10; reception, 18.11; Emerson reads, 18.12; Thoreau reads, 19.1; proposed abridgement, 20.7; and Darwinism, 22.2; influence on Haeckel, 22.3; Muir reads, 23.1

Cotopaxi (volcano, Ecuador), 6.1, 7.1

Cotta, Johann Georg von

creoles: status in Spanish America, 4.1, 9.1

crocodiles: on Orinoco, 5.1, 17.1

Cruz, José de la, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 8.1

Cuba, 8.1, 8.2, 12.1, 23.1

Cumaná (Venezuela), 3.1, 4.1, 6.1, 17.1

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Cuvier, Georges, 9.1, 11.1, 11.2, 14.1, 14.2

Darwin, Charles: praises AH, prl.1, 20.1; on origin of species, prl.2; theory of evolution, prl.3, 17.1, 17.2, 18.1; and adaptation of life forms, 2.1; and grandfather Erasmus’s Loves of the Plants, 2.2; requests copy of AH’s Views of Nature, 10.1; influenced by AH’s Personal Narrative, 13.1, 17.3, 17.4, 17.5, 17.6, 18.2, 20.2; Lyell supports, 14.1; gives up medical studies, 14.2, 17.7; on Beagle expedition, 17.8, 17.9; seasickness, 17.10, 17.11; background, 17.12; and Lyell’s Principles of Geology, 17.13; returns to England (1836), 17.14; intense work and writings, 17.15; on species distribution, 17.16, 18.3; notebook references to AH, 17.17; on predatory nature, 17.18; AH meets, 18.4; ill health, 18.5; marriage, 18.6; reads AH’s Cosmos, 18.7; unaware of AH’s death, 20.3; death, 20.4; racial theories, 22.1; accused of heresy, 22.2; Haeckel reads and champions, 22.3; Haeckel meets, 22.4; Origin of Species, 10.2, 17.19, 18.8, 20.5, 22.5; Voyage of the Beagle, 17.20, 18.9; Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, 17.21

Darwin, Emma (née Wedgwood; Charles’s wife)

Darwin, Erasmus (Charles’s grandfather): on evolution of species, 17.1; The Loves of the Plants (poem), 2.1, 17.2; Zoomania, 17.3, 17.4

Darwin, Henrietta (Charles’s daughter)

Darwin, Robert (Charles’s father), 14.1, 17.1, 17.2

Davy, Sir Humphry, 11.1, 13.1, 14.1

deforestation: AH warns against, prl.1; and climate change, 4.1, 4.2; AH’s views on, 16.1; Thoreau on, 19.1; Marsh on, 21.1, 21.2, 22.1, 23.1, 23.2; Madison warns against, 21.3; Muir on, 23.3

Descartes, René, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 4.1, 13.1

Description de l’Égypte

Deutsche Bund (German Confederation)

diamonds: AH finds in Russia

Diderot, Denis (ed.): Encyclopédie

Dolores (Mexico)

earth: age and formation, 2.1, 6.1, 14.1, 15.1

earthquakes, 4.1, 12.1, 15.1, 17.1, 23.1

East India Company (British), 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 14.1, 14.2

ecology: Humboldt’s observations on, 4.1; Haeckel coins word, 22.1

Edinburgh Review

Edward VII, King of Great Britain: christening

Egypt: Napoleon’s expedition to, 3.1, 11.1

Ehrenberg, Christian Gottfried, 16.1, 16.2

electric eels, 5.1, 10.1

Elgin Marbles

Emerson, Edward

Emerson, Lydian

Emerson, Ralph Waldo: on AH’s observation, prl.1; Transcendentalism, 2.1, 19.1; relations with Thoreau, 4.1, 19.2, 19.3; inspired by AH’s Views of Nature, 10.1; reads Cosmos, 18.1; visits Muir in California, 23.1

empiricism, 2.1, 10.1

Encke, Johann Franz

Endeavour (ship)

Enlightenment: in AH’s education, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 8.1; in Saxe-Weimar, 2.1; on external and internal worlds, 2.2; Bolívar embraces ideas, 9.1, 12.1, 14.1; and rationalism, 10.1

Erie Canal (USA)