FIRST DANISH EDITION OF KANT'S THIRD WORK
KANT, IMMANUEL.
Almindelig Naturhistorie og Theorie over Himmelen eller Forsøg om den hele Verdensbygnings Forfatning og mekaniske Oprindelse. Afhandlet efter Neutoniske Grundsætninger. Efter den 1797 af M. F. besørgede nye Udgave oversat af C.C. Pflueg.
Kjøbenhavn, 1806.
8vo. Nice contemporary half calf with gilt ornamentation and gilt title-label to spine. Upper capital a bit worn. Old owner's name removed from title-page. Ex libris to inside of front board. Presumably lacking a blank leaf in the beginning. XLII, 245 pp.
Scarce first edition of the first Danish translation of Kant’s third work, his “Allgemiene Naturgeschichte”, which was originally printed in 1755, but which only appeared again in 1797, from which edition this translation is made. All early edition of the work, including the translations, are scarce. In his youth Kant was a great admirerer of Newton, and in this work he bases his theories on him, but at the same time goes far beyond him. Kant describes how the solar system originated, and does this on the basis of his own mechanical principles. "In his "Theory of the heavens", Kant, by a series of bold strokes, anticipated astronomical facts that were later confirmed by very powerful observational techniques and with the help of relativistic cosmological theory. He conjectured that our solar system is a part of a vast system of stars making up a single galaxy, that the so-called nebolous-stars are galactic systems external to but similar to our own galaxy (a fact that was not confirmed until the twentieth century), and that there are many such galaxies making up the universe as a whole." (D.S.B. VII:231). Bibl. Dan. II:81.
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