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Wright, who considered the milky way as corresponding to the ecliptic
of the system of the suns. Kant was delighted with Wright’s thought
and took it up, without, however, according to Nyrén’s opinion — Nyrén
imving had access to the exceedingly rare work of Wright — having
added anything essential to it.
Swedenborg also expressed the opinion that tliere are still greater
systems in which the milky ways are elements, and so forth. This
opinion closely agrees with a view, highly valucd by many, expressed
by Lambert in his »Kosmologische Briefe», of the year 1761.
If we briefly summarize the ideas, which were first given expression
to by Swedenborg, and afterwards, although usually in a much modified
form — consciously or unconsciously — taken up by other authors in
cosmologv, we find tliem to be the following:
The planets of our solar system originate from the solar
matter — taken up by Buffon, Kant, Laplace, and others.
The earth — and the other planets — have graduallv remo ved
themselves from the sun and reeeived a gradually lengthened
time of revolution — a view again expressed by G. H.
Darwin.
The earth’s time of rotation, that is to say, the day’s length,
has been gradually increased — a view again expressed by
G. H. Darwin.
The suns are arranged around the milky way — taken up
by Wright, Kant and Lambert.
There are still greater systems, in which the milky ways are
arranged — taken up by Lambert.
What now is the value of the cosmological principles in general?
To this question many very differing answers are given. To indicate
this we may refer to the widely differing recognitions of Kant’s
cosmological work which have been made in various quarters. Du Bois
Reymond says that »with Kant ends that series of philosopliers who
were in complete possession of the scientific knowledge of their times
and who participated in the work of scientists». That this view is
untena-ble, is clear from H. L. Vogel’s expressions: »If one now make
allowance for this fundamental error, (that Kant supposed the circling
movement of the planetary system not to have existed from the
begin-ning, but to have gradually developed itself), Kant’s theory contains so
many errors and difficulties in particular points, that it now actually is
without any value». These difficulties and errors are, however, of such
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