452 Notes to Pages 107—109- Scheffner, Mein Leben, p. 59.
- Scheffner, Mein Leben, p. 60.
- Borowski, Leben, pp. 94f. Borowski may be exaggerating here. In any case, he ad¬
mits that in later years Kant became very interested in church history. - Emil Arnoldt, "Möglichst vollständiges Verzeichnis aller von Kant gehaltenen oder
auch nur angekündigten Vorlesungen nebst darauf bezüglichen Notizen," in Emil
Arnoldt, Gesammelte Schriften, 6 vols., ed. Otto Schöndörffer (Berlin, 1907-09),
IV, pp. 335f. But see also Werner Stark's more specific account in "Einleitung," to
Ak 25.1 (Anthropologie Vorlesungen), pp. xcvii f. The semesters began on Easter
and Michaelmas respectively, i.e., the summer semester could start at any time
between March 22 and April 25, while the winter semester always started on Sep¬
tember 29. The election of the rector was an important event at the beginning of
every semester. It took place the Sunday after the beginning of the semester. But
lectures usually started only eight days after the election of the rector. - Stark, "Introduction," Ak 25, p. xcix.
- Arnoldt, "Möglichst vollständigesVerzeichis," p. 188.
- 1756/57: logic, metaphysics (according to Baumeister), ethical theory, mathe¬
matics, physics; 1757: physical geography, natural science, logic, metaphysics
(Baumeister or Baumgarten), mathematics; 1757/58: metaphysics, physics, math¬
ematics, moral philosophy, and a Disputatorium (exercises in disputation); perhaps
also logic; 1758: logic, metaphysics, disputation (on Wednesdays and Sundays),
mathematics, natural science, physical geography, etc., etc. See Arnoldt, "Möglichst
vollständiges Verzeichnis," pp. 173-343. - This was a summary of a more extensive work. He read once in accordance with
the more extensive textbook also known as the "Large Meier." - Maker, Kant in Rede und Gespräch, p. 42.
- Borowski, Leben, p. 101. These notebooks have not survived.
- Kant owned the 1750 edition of the former and the 1749 edition of the latter. He
seems to have lectured on this subject for sixteen semesters from the winter of
1755-56 to the summer of 1763. See Gottfried Martin, "Die mathematischen
Vorlesungen Immanuel Kants," Kant-Studien 58 (1967), pp. 58-62. See also the
translators note in Gottfried Martin, Arithmetic and Combinatorics: Kant and His
Contemporaries, tr. and ed. Judy Wubnig (Carbondale and Edwardsville: South¬
ern Illinois University Press, 1985), pp. i43f. This conflicts with Arnoldt's view,
according to which he did not read mathematics in the winter semesters of
1757-58 and 1758-59 and the summer of 1762. Arnoldt is probably correct. This
means that it is likely that Kant used the shorter Auszug during the preceding
semester. - According to Arnoldt, Kant lectured on physics in the winter semesters of 1755-
56,1756-57,1760-61,1762-63, and in the summer semester of 1759. He also lec¬
tured on natural science in the summer semesters of 1756, 1757, and 1758, lec¬
tured on theoretical physics in the summer of 1761, and gave a collegium physico-
mathematicum in the winter of 1761—62. - Jachmann, Kant, p. 137.
- Borowski, Leben, p. 83. Vorländer, Leben, p. 57, thinks that this was later and that