Examination of the Question Whether the Earth Has Undergone an Alteration of Its Axial Rotation
Examination of the Question Whether the Earth Has Undergone an Alteration of Its Axial Rotation
by Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) · 1754
Prize-question essay arguing that tidal friction slowly retards the earth's rotation, an early correct account of tidal braking.
About
- Also known as
- Untersuchung der Frage, ob die Erde in ihrer Umdrehung um die Achse … einige Veränderung seit den ersten Zeiten ihres Ursprungs erlitten habe
- Classification
- LCC B2794: Philosophy. Psychology. Religion › Philosophy (General)
- Categories
- science, astronomy, natural-philosophy
- Tradition
- Rationalist
- Written in
- German
- Translation
- W. Hastie, 1900 (in Kant's Cosmogony)
- Public domain (US)
- Yes
- Notes
- Wöchentliche Königsbergische Frag- und Anzeigungs-Nachrichten, 1754.
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| Source | Rank | Edition | Links |
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| Kant's Gesammelte Schriften, Akademie-Ausgabe vols. I–IX (korpora.org, University of Duisburg-Essen) aa01/183.html | Clean text (scrape) | Kants gesammelte Schriften (Akademie-Ausgabe), vol. I · German | HTML |
| Internet Archive kantscosmogonyas00kantuoft | Scan with good OCR | Kant's Cosmogony, as in his Essay on the Retardation of the Rotation of the Earth and his Natural History and Theory of the Heavens; tr. W. Hastie (Glasgow, 1900) | PDF · Text · Page |