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but really at Zeitz. It is entitled: 'A New 

 Edition, with the Author's Own New Corrections.' * 

 But this is misleading, as it contains no additions 

 or modifications by Kant himself, except the oral 

 statement added to Gensichen's Excerpt of 1791. 

 It professes, however, to modernise the language 

 and revise the numbers, which makes it worthless 

 as a text, and it adds a variety of footnotes of no 

 great value. There are copies of this edition in 

 the Library of the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, 

 and in King's College Library, Aberdeen. It was 

 again reprinted after Kant's death in 1808 as a 

 ' Fourth Edition ' at Zeitz by Webel. There is a 

 copy of this edition in the Advocates' Library, 

 Edinburgh. 



5. Genuine New Editions in Kant's Life-time. 

 The work was, however, reprinted 'in the original 

 form' in 1797, in 'I. Kant's not yet collected small 

 writings/ and again in 1799 m ^ ne ^ rs ^ volume of 

 Tieftrunk's Collection. 2 Since then the work has 

 been reproduced in all the collected editions of 

 Kant's works. (Rosenkranz, Hartenstein, Von Kirch- 

 mann.) Kehrbach's separate edition of the work 

 in the Universal-Bibliothek shows his usual thorough- 



- 1 Allgemeine Naturgeschichte, etc., von Tmmanuel Kant. Neue 

 Auflage, mit des Verfassers eigenen neuen Berichtigungen. Frankfurt 

 und Leipzig, 1797. 130. 8. 



2 Immanuel Kanfs friiher noch nicht gesammelte kleine Schriften. 

 Frankfurt und Leipzig, 1797, XVIII., 130. 8. /. Kanfs vermischte 

 Schriften. Echte und vollstandige Ausgabe. Bd. I. Halle, 1799. 

 8, S. 283-520. 



