The Invention of Nature

Paris: Caroline in, 3.1, 3.2, 9.1, 9.2; AH visits, 3.3; AH returns to (1804), 9.3; AH’s fondness for, 9.4; changes under Napoleon, 9.5; science in, 9.6, 9.7; life in, 9.8, 11.1, 11.2; Board of Longitude, 9.9; AH meets Bolívar in, 9.10; AH settles in (1807–27), 10.1, 11.3; Prussian peace mission in (1807), 10.2; Allies occupy (1814), 11.4; tourists and visitors, 11.5; cuisine, 13.1; decline as scientific centre under monarchy, 14.1; AH leaves for Berlin (1827), 14.2; AH revisits annually from Berlin, 18.1, 18.2; World Fair (1900), 22.1; see also Académie des Sciences

Parry, William Edward

Peale, Charles Willson

Personal Narrative (AH): success and influence, 13.1; Darwin cherishes, 13.2, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3, 17.4, 20.1; inspires Wordsworth poem, 13.3; incorporated in Voyage to the Equinoctial Regions, 14.1; Thoreau reads, 19.1; new English translation, 20.2; Haeckel acquires, 22.1; on Tenerife, 22.2; Muir owns and reads, 23.1, 23.2

Peru: rebellion

Pétion, Alexandre

Philadelphia, 8.1, 8.2

Pichincha (volcano, Ecuador), 6.1, 7.1

Pico del Teide (Canary Islands), 3.1, 10.1, 17.1

Pinchot, Gifford

Piòbesi (near Turin)

Pisba (Colombia)

Pizarro (Spanish frigate), 3.1, 3.2

plants: distribution by geography and altitude, prl.1, 7.1, 10.1, 17.1, 18.1, 23.1; classification, 10.2

Poe, Edgar Allan: Eureka

Polier, Count Adolphe, 16.1, 16.2

Political Essay on the Island of Cuba (AH), 12.1, 20.1

Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain

(AH), 12.1, 12.2, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1, 16.1, 17.1, 20.1

Polk, James K.

Pound, Ezra

Prussia: rise to power, 1.1; losses in Napoleonic Wars, 10.1; AH accompanies peace mission to Paris (1807), 10.2; political–economic conditions, 15.1, 15.2; revolution (1848) and demands for reform, 20.1

Pushkin, Alexander

Quarterly Review, 13.1, 18.1

Quito, 6.1, 12.1, 12.2

radiolarians, 22.1, 22.2

rainforest: life in

rationalism, 2.1, 10.1

Reform Bill (Britain, 1832), 17.1

revolutions of 1848, 20.1, 20.2

Rheinischer Merkur (newspaper)

Richards, Robert: The Tragic Sense of Life, 22.1

Riga

Riscasoli, Baron Bettino

Ritter, Carl

Rodríguez, Simón, 9.1, 9.2, 12.1

Romantic movement: in Saxe-Weimar, 2.1; Goethe and, 2.2; on internalizing nature, 2.3, 13.1; poetry, 2.4, 9.1, 13.2, 19.1; Schelling and, 10.1, 19.2; and Emerson’s Transcendentalism, 19.3

Rome, 9.1, 9.2

Roosevelt, Theodore

Rose, Gustave, 16.1, 16.2

Ross, Captain James Clark

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

Royal Academy (London)

Royal Society (London)

Rush, Richard

Russia: AH travels in, 15.1; gold and precious minerals in, 16.1; war with Ottomans, 16.2, 16.3; absolutism under Nicholas I, 16.4; geomagnetic research in, 16.5; idolizes AH, 16.6

St Helena (island), 11.1, 13.1, 16.1, 17.1

St Petersburg, 16.1, 16.2

Saint Vincent (island): volcanic eruption (1812)

San Fernando de Apure (mission, South America), 4.1, 5.1

San Francisco

San Salvador see Bahia

Sanssouci (palace, Potsdam)

Santander, Francisco de Paula

Santiago (Cape Verde islands)

Sargen, Charles

Schelling, Friedrich: Naturphilosophie, 10.1, 13.1, 19.1

Schiller, Friedrich, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 22.1

Schlagintweit, Hermann, Rudolph and Adolf, 20.1, 20.2

Schot, Joseph van der

science: development, 1.1; and reason and empiricism, 2.1; in Paris, 9.1, 9.2; flourishes in Napoleon’s France, 11.1; and imagination, 13.1, 18.1, 19.1; Coleridge and Wordsworth on reductionism of, 13.2; methods, 19.2

scientist (word): coined

Seifert, Johann: accompanies AH to Russia, 16.1; in Berlin with AH, 20.1; attends AH’s funeral, 20.2

self: and nature, 2.1; Kant on, 2.2; Goethe on, 2.3; Schelling on, 10.1, 13.1

sequoias (trees), 23.1, 23.2, 23.3

Sethe, Anna see Haeckel, Anna

Shelley, Mary: Frankenstein

Siberia: AH in, 16.1; anthrax epidemic, 16.2, 16.3; plant distribution, 18.1

Siberian Highway, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3

Sicily: Haeckel in

Sierra Club (USA), 23.1, 23.2

Silla (mountain, Venezuela)

Slavery Abolition Act (Britain, 1834), 17.1

slaves and slavery: in South America, 4.1, 8.1; and colonialism, 8.2; in USA, 8.3, 12.1, 15.1, 20.1; AH condemns, 8.4, 12.2, 20.2; Bolívar frees, 12.3; abolished in Britain, 17.1; abolished in USA, 23.1

Smithsonian Institution, Washington

Somerville, Mary, 14.1; On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences, 18.1

South America see Latin America

Southey, Robert, 9.1, 13.1

Spain: issues passport to AH, 3.1, 3.2; Latin American empire, 3.3, 6.1, 8.1, 8.2, 12.1, 12.2; and border dispute with USA, 8.3; threatened by Napoleon, 9.1, 12.3; loses South American colonies, 12.4, 12.5; sends fleet to South America, 12.6; AH criticizes rule in Latin America, 12.7

species: evolution and distribution of, 17.1, 18.1; see also plants

Stegner, Wallace

Sturm und Drang (‘Storm and Stress’ movement)

sugar: cultivation

Sullivan, Louis

Talleyrand, Charles-Maurice de

tapirs

Tegel (Prussia), 1.1, 1.2, 11.1, 18.1, 20.1, 22.1