On the Causes of Earthquakes on the Occasion of the Calamity That Befell the Western Countries of Europe towards the End of Last Year
On the Causes of Earthquakes on the Occasion of the Calamity That Befell the Western Countries of Europe towards the End of Last Year
by Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) · 1756
The first of three essays on the Lisbon earthquake of 1755, explaining earthquakes naturally by subterranean chemical combustion.
About
- Also known as
- Von den Ursachen der Erderschütterungen bei Gelegenheit des Unglücks, welches die westliche Länder von Europa gegen das Ende des vorigen Jahres betroffen hat
- Classification
- LCC B2794: Philosophy. Psychology. Religion › Philosophy (General)
- Categories
- science, geology, lisbon-earthquake
- Tradition
- Rationalist
- Written in
- German
- Translation
- none PD (best: Eric Watkins, ed., Natural Science, 2012)
- Public domain (US)
- The work, but not its English translations
Free copies
| Source | Rank | Edition | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kant's Gesammelte Schriften, Akademie-Ausgabe vols. I–IX (korpora.org, University of Duisburg-Essen) aa01/417.html | Clean text (scrape) | Kants gesammelte Schriften (Akademie-Ausgabe), vol. I · German | HTML |