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Acknowledgments Introduction Prologue: The Humboldt Brothers Confront Nature's Sublimity 1. Storming "the Temple of Error": Buffon, the Historie naturelle, and the Midcentury Origins of Enlightenment Vitalism 2. Learning to "Read the Book of Nature": Vitalizing Chemistry in the Late Enlightenment 3. "Within the Circle of Organized Life" 4. The Metamorphoses of Change 5. From Enlightenment Vitalism to Romantic Naturphilosophie Epilogue: From the Foot of Chimborazo to the Flatlands of Europe Alexander von Humboldt's Dilemma Reprise: What Is Enlightenment? What Isn't Enlightenment? Notes Bibliography Index

Vitalizing Nature in the Enlightenment

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: 6/6/2005 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780520241350, 978-0520241350
      ISBN10: 0520241355

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      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments Introduction Prologue: The Humboldt Brothers Confront Nature's Sublimity 1. Storming "the Temple of Error": Buffon, the Historie naturelle, and the Midcentury Origins of Enlightenment Vitalism 2. Learning to "Read the Book of Nature": Vitalizing Chemistry in the Late Enlightenment 3. "Within the Circle of Organized Life" 4. The Metamorphoses of Change 5. From Enlightenment Vitalism to Romantic Naturphilosophie Epilogue: From the Foot of Chimborazo to the Flatlands of Europe Alexander von Humboldt's Dilemma Reprise: What Is Enlightenment? What Isn't Enlightenment? Notes Bibliography Index

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