01118nam a22001457a 4500 518709 518709 211028b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Anthony, Patrick 29815 Making historicity: Paleontology and the proximity of the past in Germany, 1775–1825 Journal of The History of Ideas 82(2), Apr, 2021: p.207-230 This 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 Journal of The History of Ideas HISTORY AR 0 0 ddc 0 0 392777 IIPA IIPA 2021-10-28 82(2), Apr, 2021: p.207-230 AR125806 2021-10-28 AR