FOUR NEGLECTED
ESSAYS
TABLE OF CONTENTS
'Man must learn to accommodate himself to nature, but he would have nature to accommodate herself to him.' -- Kant (see pp.25-26 [Ak. I.456])
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A Note on Editorial Conventions
KANT'S FOUR ESSAYS
Original (1798) title page of Essays and Treatises, volume I (printed version only)
I.
History and Physiography
of the Most Remarkable Cases of the Earthquake which towards the End of the
year 1755 Shook a Great Part of the Earth (1756)
II. On the Volcanos in
the Moon (1785)
III. Of the Injustice of
Counterfeiting Books (1785)
IV. Something on the
Influence of the Moon on the Weather Condition (1794)
APPENDICES
I.
Editor's Introduction
II. Two Letters (1798)
III. A Sketch of the
Author's [Kant's] Life and Writings by John Richardson
IV. Exhaustive Bibliography
of English Translations of Kant
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A NOTE ON EDITORIAL CONVENTIONS
The four essays that follow have been thoroughly edited to correspond more closely to the German original than did Richardson's own translation. For an explanation of the conventions used in this process, the reader is advised to read pages 73-76 before proceeding to the essays themselves. (See also page 53, for a further explanation of the notes). The numbers in pointed brackets refer to the pagination of the standard edition of Kant's works, prepared by the Preukilchen Akademie der Wissenschaften: Kants gesammelte Schriften, 29 vols. (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1910-1983), abbreviated Ak.