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I. KANT'S PRELIMINARY DISCUSSION : 



Examination of the Question whether the Earth has under- 

 gone an Alteration of its Axial Rotation, ... l 



II. KANT'S UNIVERSAL NATURAL HISTORY AND THEORY 



OF THE HEAVENS, . . ' . . . . . 13 



Preface, .17 



Survey of the Contents of the whole Work, . . . 38 



FIRST PART. Sketch of a Systematic Constitution among the 



Fixed Stars, . . . . . . . . 45 



SECOND PART. Of the First State of Nature, the Formation 



of the Heavenly Bodies, etc., . . " , . . 69 



Chap. I. The Origin of the Structure of the World, etc., . 71 

 II. The different Density of the Planets, etc., . . 83 



III. The Eccentricity of the Orbits of the Planets and 



the Origin of the Comets, . . . . 95 



IV. The Origin of the Moons and the Movements of 



Planets round their Axes, . . . .. . 103 



V. The Origin of Saturn's Ring and Calculation of 



the Diurnal Rotation of this Planet, . . . 113 



VI. Of the Zodiacal Light, . . . . . 132 

 VII. Of the Creation in the whole extent of its Infinitude, 135 



Addition : A General Theory and History of the 

 Sun, 156 



APPENDICES 



A. Dieterich's Summary of Kant's Theory of the Heavens, . 168 



B. The Hamburg Account of the Theory of Thomas Wright 



of Durham, ......... 180 



C. Professor De Morgan's Account of the Speculations of 



Thomas Wright of Durham, 192 



