Universal Natural History and Theory of the Heavens

Universal Natural History and Theory of the Heavens

Author	Immanuel Kant
Original title	Allgemeine Naturgeschichte und Theorie des Himmels
Country	Germany
Language	German
Subject	cosmogony
Published	1755
Media type	Print

Universal Natural History and Theory of the Heavens (German: Allgemeine Naturgeschichte und Theorie des Himmels), subtitled or an Attempt to Account for the Constitutional and Mechanical Origin of the Universe upon Newtonian Principles,^[a] is a work written and published anonymously by Immanuel Kant in 1755.

According to Kant, the Solar System is merely a smaller version of the fixed star systems, such as the Milky Way and other galaxies. The cosmogony that Kant proposes is closer to today's accepted ideas than that of some of his contemporary thinkers, such as Pierre-Simon Laplace. Moreover, Kant's thought in this volume is strongly influenced by the atomist theory, in addition to the ideas of Lucretius.
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