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"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'. Kant's Universal Natural History and Theory of the Heavens (1755) made a significant advance in cosmolo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Alemán |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Colección: | Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804. Works. 1992.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "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'. Kant's 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 Kant's first publication, Thoughts on the True Estimation of Living Forces (1746-1749), the entirety of Physical Geography (1802), a series of shorter essays, along with many of Kant's 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"-- |
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| Notas: | Includes index. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xviii, 802 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9781107341111 1107341116 9781139014380 1139014382 9781107344860 1107344867 9781107347366 110734736X 1107233011 9781107233010 1107356989 9781107356986 1107552141 9781107552142 1107343615 9781107343610 |