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  • 12 - Review of Silberschlag's work: Theory of the fireball that appeared on 23 July 1762 (1764)

  • Immanuel Kant
  • Edited by Eric Watkins, University of California, San Diego
  • Book:
    Kant: Natural Science
    Published online:
    05 November 2012
    Print publication:
    04 October 2012, pp 409-413

  • Summary

    Kant's "Review of Silberschlag's Work: Theory of the Fireball that appeared on 23 July 1762" was published anonymously on 23 March 1764. While it is uncertain exactly what motivated Kant to respond in this way, the review is clearly positive. This work consists of two main parts, the first of which treats of the atmosphere, and the second of the fireball, to which further addenda are attached with reports and observations that had come in. The first part discusses air and its changes and views the sea of air as an atmosphere and a new division of regions of air is presented in addition to the various considerable remarks about mists, fog, clouds, and rain. The second part treats of the orbit the creation and the use of this meteor in three sections. The three copper plates illustrate the theory, the shape and the path that this fire-mass took.