‎"KANT, IMMANUEL.‎
‎Physische Geographie. Ersten Bandes erste Abtheilung, welche die mathematischen Vorkenntnisse und die allgemeine Beschreibung der Meere enthält (+) Ersten Bandes zweite Abtheilung.‎

‎Mainz & Hamburg, Vollmer, 1801. 8vo. In contemporary half calf. Small paper-label pasted on to spine. Wear to boards, part of the marbled paper worn off. Internally with occassional brownspots, but generally nice and clean. VI, 264, (2), 323, (3) pp. ‎

Reference : 61541

‎The first authorized edition of these geographical treatises published in response to Vollmer's unauthorized 1801 edition. Kant was among the pioneering scholars to integrate geography into university curricula, delivering lectures on the subject from 1756 to 1796. In 1757 he began teaching geography, making him one of the earliest academics to establish it as an independent discipline.Geography became one of Kant’s most popular lecture topics, and in 1802, Friedrich Theodor Rink compiled and published the present work based on Kant's lecture notes. After becoming a professor in 1770, Kant broadened his lecture topics to include natural law, ethics, anthropology and other fields. Warda 210‎