The Invention of Nature

by Andrea Wulf

  Ernst Haeckel’s drawings of medusae. He named the large one in the centre Desmonema Annasethe after his wife Anna Sethe. The caption read that he owed her ‘the happiest years of his life’. (Illustration Credit ins.14)

  Yosemite Valley, California. John Muir referred to the Sierra Nevada as the ‘Range of Light’. (Illustration Credit ins.15)