After Schelling and during his era as well, natural philosophy was part of a detailed discussion surrounding the evaluation of the conception of nature, a determination of the position of the sciences and anthropology. This volume is designed as a handbook presenting in detail these different views of natural philosophy, some of which are controversial. As a lexicon of authors, it gives access to the relevant concepts of natural philosophy and imparts information on the biographies and works of German-language authors up to 1860.weiterlesen