Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Prologue: The Humboldt Brothers Confront Nature's Sublimity 17
6. I. Storming "the Temple of Error": Buffon, the Histoire naturelle, and the Midcentury Origins of Enlightenment Vitalism 33
7. 2. Learning to "Read the Book of Nature": Vitalizing Chemistry in the Late Enlightenment 71
8. 3. "Within the Circle of Organized Life" 119
9. 4. The Metamorphoses of Change 159
10. 5. From Enlightenment Vitalism to Romantic Naturphilosophie 199
11. Notes 257
12. Bibliography 327
13. Index 367