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of Natural Science. 1 Ueberweg in 1865, and Hay 

 in 1866, dealt specially with the Cosmogony, and 

 Liebmann, in 1874, continued the comparison of 

 Kant and Laplace. Dr. Konrad Dieterich in 1876, in 

 his Kant and Newton, gave an admirable sketch of 

 Kant's scientific relation to Newton, illustrating it 

 by apt quotations from his scientific writings. 2 In 

 1875, Fritz Schultze, in his work entitled Kant 

 and Darwin, excerpted the leading passages of 

 Kant's Cosmogony and other writings in connection 

 with the doctrine of evolution; 3 and in 1880, Dr. 

 Karl du Prel, criticising the ' Kant-Laplace theory,' 

 also finds it completed by Darwin. 4 A popular 

 edition of the Natural History and Theory of the 

 Heavens, carefully edited by Kehrbach, was intro- 

 duced into the German 'Universal Library'; 5 and 

 another excellent edition for students of science has 

 been edited with notes by A. J. von Oettingen in 

 Ostwald's 'Classics of the Exact Sciences.' 6 Know- 

 ledge of the interest and importance of Kant's 

 Cosmogony thus became diffused through the 

 scientific atmosphere of Germany, and rapidly spread 

 wherever German science was studied. The German 

 historians of philosophy followed the lead of the 



1 In his article in the Deutsche Vierteljahrs-Schrift, 31 Jahrg., 

 2 Heft., 1868, entitled : ' Kant und die Naturwissenschaft.' 



2 Kant und Newton. Tubingen, 1876. 



*Kant und Datwin. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Entwicklnngs- 

 lehre, June, 1875. 



4 Die Planet enbewohner und die Nebularhypothese. Leipzig, 1880. 



5 Universal- Bibliothek, 1^54, I $55. Good Bibliography and references. 



6 Ostwald's Klassiker der exacten Wissenschaften,~N*. 12, 1898. 



