Notes to Pages 100—107 451- Johann Georg Hamann, Briefwechsel, vols. 1-7, ed. Walther Ziesemer and Arthur
Henkel (Frankfurt [Main]: Insel Verlag, 10.55-1979), I, p. 190 (April 28, 1756). - Kant, Latin Writings, ed. Beck, p. 58.
- Kant, Latin Writings, ed. Beck, p. 83.
- Kant, Latin Writings, ed. Beck, pp. 821".
- Kant handed it in on March 23, 1756 (see Ak 1, p. 578).
- Kant, Latin Writings, ed. Beck, p. 95.
- Kant, Latin Writings, ed. Beck, p. 97.
- Kant, Latin Writings, ed. Beck, p. 99.
- On Boscovich and his possible influence, see Beck in Kant, Latin Writings, ed.
Beck, pp. 88, gon. On Euler, see H. E. Timerding, "Kant und Euler," Kant-Studien
23 (1919), pp. 18-64, and Wolfgang Breidert, "Leonhard Euler und die Philoso¬
phie," in Leonhard Euler, 1707-1783: Beiträge zu Leben und Werk (Gedenkband
des Kantons Basel-Stadt Basel: Birkhauser Verlag, 1983), pp. 447-457. It is cer¬
tainly significant that Kant sent his first work to Euler. See also Fischer, "Kant an
Euler," pp. 214-218. Timerding argues that Euler was to some extent influenced
by Baumgarten. - G. Krause, Gottsched und Flottwell, die Begründer der deutschen Gesellschaft (Leipzig,
1893), p. 47. Compare Stark, "Kants Kollegen" (unpublished manuscript). - Hamann, Briefwechsel, I, p. 98.
- Ak 1, p. 231. See Ley, Kant's Cosmogony. He reprints the review.
- References to Weitenkampf's publication show that he was still writing on it in
- See Waschkies, Physik und Physikotheologie, and Riccardo Pozzo, "Kant e
Weitenkampff," Rivista distoria della fdosofia 48 (1993), pp. 283-322. - Accordingly, he first offers a brief account of Newton's principles.
- Arthur Lovejoy, The Great Chain of Being: A Study in the History of Ideas (New
York: Harper & Brothers, i960), pp. 265^, views Kant's theory as "a temporalized
version of the principle of plenitude" (p. 265). - For general information about Kant's teaching see Werner Stark, "Kant als akade¬
mischer Lehrer," in Königsberg und Riga, ed. Heinz Ischreyt (Tübingen: Max
Niemeyer Verlag, 1995), pp. 51-70. - Borowski, Leben, p. 100. This probably took place on Monday, October 13,1755. See
"Translator's Introduction" to Immanuel Kant, Lectures on Metaphysics, tr. Karl
Ameriks and Steve Naragon (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), p. xix. - Borowski, Leben, ioof. See also Wannowski in Maker, Kant in Rede und Gespräch,
p. 48: "he used the textbooks his lectures were based on as a canon but only pro
forma, following his own thoughts." Kant himself taught physical geography and
anthropology without a textbook, however. But both were "new" disciplines. - Johannes Voigt, Das Leben des Professor Christian Jacob Kraus.. .; aus den Mit¬
teilungen seiner Freunde und Briefen (Königsberg, 1819), p. 130. - Borowski, Leben, p. 103, see also p. 62.
- Borowski, Leben, p. 91.
- Scheffner, Mein Leben, II, p. 362.
- Johann Georg Hamann, Hamanns Schriften, 7 vols., ed. Friedrich Roth (Berlin,
1821-25), HI, P- ii- Watson was three years younger than Hamann. He became
Magister in 1753 and associate professor of rhetoric in 1756.