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The Book of Nature

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Documented 1827

Notebooks

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

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Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this work is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence1record

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

1810

1820

1832

1836

1844

1846

1850

1827—

Reading Notebook 1825–1827

pp. 135–136

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“It has been very generally said and believed … that the great and mighty cause of this beautiful and harmonious formation of worlds and systems of worlds, in the opinion of Epicurus, was Chance or Fortune … "Whom" says Epicurus in a letter to his disciple Menoeceus … / Book of Nature p.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Reading Notebook 1825–1827." Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Attributed 'Book of Nature p. 52d.