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Bibliographical reference

Kant, Immanuel. Allgemeine Naturgeschichte und Theorie des Himmels, oder Versuch von der Verfassung und dem mechanischen Ursprunge des ganzen Weltgebäudes nach Newtonischen Grundsätzen abgehandelt. Königsberg und Leipzig: bey Johann Friederich Petersen, 1755.

Description

Kant wrote his Universal Natural History and Theory of the Heavens in 1755 and published it as an anonymous treatise containing a hypothesis of a nebular origin and evolution of the solar system; he then published a second edition of it, with important changes, in 1798 after Simone de Laplace published his hypothesis of the origins of the planets in 1796. The hypothesis is now well-known as the Kant-Laplace theory of the origin of the solar system.