Article ID: CBB660584496

A “Physiogony” of the Heavens: Kant’s Early View of Universal Natural History (2022)

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From 1754 to 1756 Kant wrote on such central, related topics as the axial rotation of the Earth, the theory of heat, and the composition of matter, focusing on space, force, and motion. It has been noted that each of these topics pertains to his 1755 Universal Natural History and Theory of the Heavens, in which he drew on extant cosmogonies and the analogical form of Newtonianism developed by naturalists including Buffon, Haller, and Thomas Wright. How does Kant build on these various sources? This article aims to provide a nuanced account of specific features of the relation between natural history and natural philosophy in Kant’s early developmental theory of the universe and to illuminate the strategy that guides his innovative, selective appropriation of contemporaneous insights.

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Authors & Contributors
Peramatzis, Michail
Guichard, Luis Arturo
Begley, Justin
David S. Sytsma
García Alonso, Juan Luis
Enza Del Tedesco
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