The Invention of Nature

Humboldt, Caroline von (née Dachröden; Wilhelm’s wife): view of AH, 1.1; AH visits in Jena, 2.1, 3.1; in Paris, 3.2, 3.3, 9.1; on AH’s attachments to men, 6.1; death of children, 9.2, 9.3; practical concern for AH, 9.4; in Rome, 9.5; Coleridge visits in Rome, 13.1; concern over AH’s generosity being exploited, 14.1; on AH’s lecturing in Berlin, 15.1, 15.2; death from cancer, 16.1

Humboldt, Marie Elisabeth von (AH’s mother): relations with sons, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3; death, 3.1, 3.2

Humboldt, Wilhelm von (AH’s older brother): upbringing, 1.1; intellectual interests, 1.2; attends Göttingen university, 1.3; AH visits in Jena, 2.1, 2.2; translates Aeschylus, 2.3; in Schiller’s garden, Jena, 2.4; and AH’s preoccupation with Kant, 2.5; and mother’s death, 3.1; moves to Paris, 3.2, 3.3; AH writes to from Andes, 6.1; on AH’s mental processes, 7.1; and AH’s return to Paris, 9.1; death of children, 9.2, 9.3; as Prussian Minister at Vatican, 9.4; on AH’s gentler side, 9.5; and Caroline’s concern for AH in Paris, 9.6; AH visits in Rome, 9.7; earnings, 10.1; disapproves of AH’s staying in Paris in war, 10.2, 11.1, 11.2; misgivings over AH’s relations with Arago, 11.3; as Prussian Minister of Education, 11.4, 15.1; moves to Vienna as Prussian ambassador, 11.5; as Prussian Minister to Britain, 13.1, 14.1; relations with AH, 13.2, 15.2, 18.1; leaves London for Berlin, 14.2, 15.3; on AH’s lectures in Berlin, 15.4; letter from ageing Goethe, 15.5; passion for languages, 15.6; and wife’s death, 16.1; letters from AH in Russia, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4; AH snubs attempt to find post for, 18.2; founds University of Berlin, 18.3; withdraws to Tegel, 18.4; decline and death, 18.5

Humboldt Current

Humboldtia laurifolia

hummingbirds

Hunter, John

Huxley, Aldous: Beyond the Mexique Bay

Huxley, Thomas Henry, 22.1

Imagination: AH’s, 1.1, 13.1; and nature, 2.1, 2.2, 10.1, 10.2, bm1.1; AH on as balm, 4.1, 6.1; Bolívar’s, 9.1, 12.1; and reason, 11.1, 13.2; and science, 13.3, 18.1, 19.1; as creative force, 18.2; Thoreau on, 19.2

Imperial Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg

India: AH’s plan to visit frustrated, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 14.1, 15.1

Indianapolis, 23.1, 23.2

indigo: cultivation

International Governmental Panel on Climate Change (United Nations)

isotherms, prl.1, 14.1

Italy: AH visits with Gay-Lussac, 9.1; Marsh in, 21.1; unification, 21.2; Haeckel in, 22.1, 22.2

jaguars, 5.1, 17.1

Jamaica: Bolívar in

Jardin des Plantes, Paris, 9.1, 9.2, 11.1

Java: Haeckel visits, 22.1, 22.2

Jefferson, Maria (Thomas’s daughter): death

Jefferson, Thomas: on AH, prl.1; concept of liberty and democracy, prl.2, 8.1; AH meets, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 19.1; appearance, 8.5; qualities and lifestyle, 8.6, 8.7; favours agrarian economy, 8.8, 8.9, 8.10; in Washington, 8.11; agricultural practices, 8.12; and slavery in USA, 8.13, 12.1; and AH’s plan to explore North America, 9.1; interest in South American revolutions, 12.2, 12.3; refutes Buffon’s disparagement of America, 12.4; AH recommends Portuguese botanist to, 14.1; death, 15.1; Notes on the State of Virginia

, 8.14

Jena (Germany), prl.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3; battle of (1806), 10.1

Johnson, Andrew

Johnson, Robert Underwood

Journal des Débâts, 14.1

Kaliningrad see Königsberg

Kalmyk people

Kant, Immanuel, 2.1, 10.1, 13.1, 19.1; Critique of Pure Reason, 2.2; Physische Geographie, 2.3

Karl August, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, 2.1, 2.2

Kazakh (or Kirghiz) Steppe

Keats, John

kelp: in food chain

keystone species

Klein, Naomi: This Changes Everything

knowledge: and internal and external world

Königsberg (now Kaliningrad), 2.1, 10.1, 16.1

Kosmos (magazine)

Kunth, Gottlob Johann Christian, 1.1, 1.2, 14.1

Kunth, Karl Sigismund, 11.1, 14.1

Kyrgyz (people)

Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste, 2.1, 9.1, 17.1, 17.2

language: Wilhelm on

Lanzarote (Canary islands)

Laplace, Pierre-Simon, Marquis de, 2.1, 9.1, 11.1; The Mechanism of the Heavens, 14.1

Latin America: AH travels in, prl.1, 3.1, 6.1, 7.1; Spanish possessions and colonization, 3.2, 6.2, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 12.1; creoles in, 4.1, 9.1; indigenous people, 5.1; ancient civilizations, 7.2, 12.2; slavery and free labour, 8.4, 17.1; revolutionary beginnings, 9.2, 9.3; AH writes on, 11.1, 12.3, 12.4; Bolívar returns to (1807), 12.5; liberation from Spanish rule, 12.6, 12.7, 12.8, 12.9; blockaded in Napoleonic Wars, 12.10; Spanish viceroyalties and administration, 12.11; AH defends against Buffon’s criticisms, 12.12; federation fails, 15.1; Beagle expedition visits, 17.2; Muir visits, 23.1

LeConte, Joseph, 23.1

Legions of Hell (Latin America), 12.1, 12.2

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm von

Lewis, Meriwether, 8.1, 19.1

Liebig, Justus von

Lima, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.1, 7.2

Lincoln, Abraham, 21.1, 21.2, 23.1

Linnaeus, Carl, 4.1, 10.1, 13.1

llaneros, 12.1, 12.2

Llanos (Latin America), 5.1, 5.2, 10.1, 12.1, 21.1

Locke, John

Loja (Ecuador)

London: AH visits, 1.1, 13.1, 14.1, 14.2, 18.1