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Kant's Copernican Revolution

In Our Time: Philosophy

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The Life of a Professor in Kenigsburg

Cant lived a spectacularly uneventful life, going for his daily walks. After graduating from the albertina he became an unsalaried lecturer. He lectured for decades on a huge variety of different topics before becoming a salaried professor in kenigsburg. In 17 55, he wrote o theory of the so called cant la plac nebular hypothesis theory about the origin of the solar system. Why did science matter to cant? It used to be considered part of the scientific endeavour itself. But as time has gone on, it's lost that status.

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