WorkAlexander von Humboldt

Cosmos

Mentioned

Documented 1845

Essays

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. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York1record

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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1845—

Some Items of Foreign Gossip.

“Some Items of Foreign Gossip.”

mentioned

“find their brittle faith disturbed by Von Humboldt’s Cosmos, as it was a few months since by the “Vestiges of Creation.” Von Humbolt, indeed, writes in the most serene and reverent spirit”

Fuller, Margaret. "Some Items of Foreign Gossip." New-York Daily Tribune, 2 August 1845. · 2 August 1845