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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Kant: Natural Science by Immanuel Kant , Edited by Eric Watkins
Though Kant is best known for his strictly philosophical works in the 1780s, many of his early publications in particular were devoted to what we would call natural science. Kants Universal Natural History and Theory of the Heavens 1755 made a significant advance in cosmology, and he was also instrumental in establishing the newly emerging discipline of physical geography, lecturing on it for almost his entire career. In this volume Eric Watkins brings together new English translations of Kants first publication, Thoughts on the True Estimation of Living Forces 1746-9, the entirety of Physical Geography 1802, a series of shorter essays, along with many of Kants most important publications in natural science. The volume is rich in material for the student and the scholar, with extensive linguistic and explanatory notes, editorial introductions and a glossary of key terms.show more