Succinct Exposition of Some Meditations on Fire
Succinct Exposition of Some Meditations on Fire
by Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) · 1755
Kant's master's dissertation, explaining heat, fire and the states of matter by an elastic ether diffused through bodies.
About
- Also known as
- Meditationum quarundam de igne succincta delineatio; De igne
- Classification
- LCC B2794: Philosophy. Psychology. Religion › Philosophy (General)
- Categories
- science, natural-philosophy, chemistry
- Tradition
- Rationalist
- Written in
- Latin
- Translation
- none PD (best: Lewis White Beck, 1986)
- Public domain (US)
- The work, but not its English translations
- Notes
- Magister dissertation, Königsberg, 1755, submitted in manuscript and printed only posthumously.
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| Kant's Gesammelte Schriften, Akademie-Ausgabe vols. I–IX (korpora.org, University of Duisburg-Essen) aa01/369.html | Clean text (scrape) | Kants gesammelte Schriften (Akademie-Ausgabe), vol. I · German | HTML |