Thoughts on the True Estimation of Living Forces
Thoughts on the True Estimation of Living Forces
by Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) · 1749 (dated 1746)
Kant's first book, on the vis viva controversy between Cartesians and Leibnizians, proposing a compromise measure of force and speculating on space's dimensionality.
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- Also known as
- Gedanken von der wahren Schätzung der lebendigen Kräfte
- Classification
- LCC B2794: Philosophy. Psychology. Religion › Philosophy (General)
- Categories
- natural-philosophy, physics, metaphysics
- Tradition
- Rationalist
- Written in
- German
- Translation
- none PD (best: Jeffrey B. Edwards and Martin Schönfeld, 2012)
- Public domain (US)
- The work, but not its English translations
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| Kant's Gesammelte Schriften, Akademie-Ausgabe vols. I–IX (korpora.org, University of Duisburg-Essen) aa01/001.html | Clean text (scrape) | Kants gesammelte Schriften (Akademie-Ausgabe), vol. I · German | HTML |