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Famous Work of Immanuel Kant
Early work[edit]
Kant is best known for his work in the philosophy of ethics and
metaphysics,[35] but he made significant contributions to other
disciplines. He made an important astronomical discovery about the
nature of Earth's rotation, for which he won the Berlin Academy Prize
in 1754.
According to Lord Kelvin:
"Kant pointed out in the middle of last century, what had not previously
been discovered by mathematicians or physical astronomers, that the
frictional resistance against tidal currents on the earth's surface must
cause a diminution of the earth's rotational speed. This immense
discovery in Natural Philosophy seems to have attracted little
attentionindeed to have passed quite unnoticedamong
mathematicians, and astronomers, and naturalists, until about 1840,
when the doctrine of energy began to be taken to heart."
Lord Kelvin, physicist, 1897
According to Thomas Huxley:
"The sort of geological speculation to which I am now referring
(geological aetiology, in short) was created as a science by that
famous philosopher, Immanuel Kant, when, in 1775 [1755], he wrote
his General Natural History and Theory of the Celestial Bodies; or, an
Attempt to Account for the Constitutional and Mechanical Origin of the
Universe, upon Newtonian Principles."
Thomas H. Huxley, 1869