01039nam a22001097a 4500008004100000100002100041245009100062260003700153300003200190520067000222773003700892211028b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aAnthony, Patrick  aMaking historicity: Paleontology and the proximity of the past in Germany, 1775–1825  aJournal of The History of Ideas   a82(2), Apr, 2021: p.207-230  aThis article analyzes the making of a novel consciousness of historicity in Germany around 1800, one that regarded mountains as vaults of a shared and palpable past. Revisiting a paleontological debate about the origin of large mammal bones found in caves, it reads the science of Johann Christian Rosenmüller (1771–1820) as a social and political accomplishment. By attributing the fossils to an indigenous "cave bear," and communicating an elite scientific debate to a lay audience, Rosenmüller presented an account of Germany's primordial past that fed seamlessly into its present, nurturing an idea of nationhood grounded in the (sub)soil. – Reproduced   aJournal of The History of Ideas