CONTENTS 

 TRANSLATOR'S INTRODUCTION 



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I . RELATION OF KANT'S SCIENCE TO HIS PHILOSOPHY, x 

 II. THE SCIENTIFIC RETURN TO KANT, . . . xvii 



III. KANT'S SCIENTIFIC ENVIRONMENT AND ANTE- 



CEDENTS, xxix 



IV. KANT'S DISCOVERY OF THE RETARDATION OF 



THE ROTATION OF THE EARTH, . ... xxxix 

 I. Lord Kelvin's Statement of Kant's Discovery, Ixviii; 



2. Dr. Reuschle on Kant's Mathematical Calculation,!; 



3. Kant's Discussion of the Ageing of the Earth, liv. 



V. KANT'S l NATURAL HISTORY AND THEORY OF 



THE HEAVENS/ lv 



I. Publication, lv; 2. Kant's later Summary of the 

 Work, lix; 3. Excerpt authorised by Kant, Iviii; 



4. Spurious Editions in Kant's Life- time, Iviii ; 



5. Genuine new Editions in Kant's Life-time, lix. 



VI. KANT'S COSMOGONY IN ITS HISTORICAL RELATIONS, lx 



I. Kant and the Ancient Cosmogonies, lx ; 2. Kant and 

 Descartes, Ixiii ; 3. Kant and Newton, Ixiv ; 4. Kant 

 and Thomas Wright of Durham, Ixv ; 5. Kant and 

 Lambert, Ixix; 6. Kant and Sir William Herschel, Ixxi ; 

 7. Kant and Laplace, Ixxiii; 8. Kant and Cosmic Evo- 

 lution, Ixxxv; 9. The Ultimate Problem left unsolved by 

 Kant, Ixxxviii. 



VII. KANT'S COSMOGONY IN RELATION TO RELIGION 



AND THEOLOGY, . . . . . . . xci 



VIII. KANT'S SCIENTIFIC ACHIEVEMENT GENERALLY. 



CRITICISMS, SUMMARIES, AND TRANSLATIONS, xcviii 



