An aphorism by either Georg Christoph Tobler or Goethe states of this concept that we are “surrounded and embraced by” it and “powerless to separate ourselves from” it. Michael Pollan’s How to Change Your Mind discusses a polymath’s claim that “I myself am identical with” this concept. This concept’s German cognate precedes a word for painting, “Gemälde,” to name a massive cross-sectional map of Cotopaxi and Chimborazo. A book of prints titled for (*) “Art Forms” in this concept was created by Ernst Haeckel. Andrea Wulf’s biography of Alexander von Humboldt is titled for “The Invention of” this concept. This word precedes “philosophy” to name the German idealist tradition of Friedrich Schelling. As an adjective, this type of philosophy was a premodern analogue of science. For 10 points, what term for the physical world or its phenomena names a major scientific journal published by Springer? ■END■
ANSWER: nature [or Natur; accept natural; accept Naturgemälde; accept Naturphilosophie; accept nature philosophy or natural philosophy] (The second sentence refers to Alexander von Humboldt. Thomas Huxley’s translation of Goethe’s nature aphorisms became the first article in the journal Nature.)
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