It was also a reaction against turning nature into amere science.[2]
The movement showed most strongly in arts like music, and literature. However, it also had an important influence onhistoriography,[3] education,[4] andnatural history.[5]
During the same period as Britain, there was a notable romantistic movement in Germany. Important motifs in German Romanticism are traveling,nature, and Germanicmyths. Involved were such figures as:
↑David Levin,History as Romantic Art: Bancroft, Prescott, and Parkman (1967)
↑Gerald Lee Gutek,A history of the Western educational experience (1987) ch. 12 onJohann Heinrich Pestalozzi
↑Ashton Nichols, "Roaring Alligators and Burning Tygers: Poetry and Science from William Bartram to Charles Darwin,"Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 2005 149(3): 304-315
