Universal Natural History and Theory of Heaven
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A newtranslation of Kants famousUniversal Natural History and Theory of Heave original German title Allgemeine Naturgeschichte
und Theorie des Himmels from the original German manuscript This new edition contains an Afterword by the translator a timeline of Kants life and works and a helpful index of Kants key concepts and intellectual rivals This translation is designed for readability rendering Kants enigmatic German into the simplest equivalent possible and removing the academic footnotes to make this critically important historical text as accessible as possible to the modern readerImmanuel Kants Universal Natural History and Theory of Heaven is one of his first Philosophic works and puts on full display his impressive intellect Even though he was not a scientist Kants Cosmogonic theories are strikingly accurate when compared to the theories of his peers Here he postulates the Nebular Hypothesis on the formation and evolution of planetary systems which is today the broadly accepted theory of planet formation He was also correct in his assumption which was unsubstantiated by observation at the time that our Milky Way galaxy was only one of countless which was only confirmed by the Hubble Telescope in the s His theories about Exoplanets were likewise only recently confirmed by the Kepler missions This is the epicenter of the chaos of the Enlightenment and Kants theories are surprisingly rational and accurate His philosophic commentaries here are a foreshadowing of his later monumental works of Enlightenment Epistemology