Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

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Kosmos

Alexander von Humboldt

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Documented 1845

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Selected engagements, in chronological order.

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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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The ‘Kosmos’ of Alexan. von Humboldt.

“The ‘Kosmos’ of Alexan. von Humboldt.”
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“Amidst the fuss of political and theological reformation, which leaves Germany no peace in these days, a gleam of pure and noble joy, a gush of deeper emotion have greeted the appearance of the first volume of Von Humboldt’s Kosmos.”

Fuller, Margaret. "The ‘Kosmos’ of Alexan. von Humboldt." New-York Daily Tribune, 11 July 1845. · 11 July 1845