TY  - BOOK
AU  - Anthony, Patrick
TI  - Making historicity: Paleontology and the proximity of the past in Germany, 1775–1825
CY  - Journal of The History of Ideas 
N2  - 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
BR  - AR125806
ER  -