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  • 9 - New notes to explain the theory of the winds, in which, at the same time, he invites attendance at his lectures (1756)

  • Immanuel Kant
  • Edited by Eric Watkins, University of California, San Diego
  • Book:
    Kant: Natural Science
    Published online:
    05 November 2012
    Print publication:
    04 October 2012, pp 374-385

  • Summary

    Kant, over the course of five notes, attempts to explain a series of specific meteorological phenomena, sometimes in novel ways. In the first and second notes, he claims that the direction of coastal winds depends on the expansion and contraction of air that is caused by differences in the rate of heating and cooling of the land and the water at sea during the day and at night. In the third, he explains the difference in (east-west) direction arising for winds moving from the Equator. In the fourth note, he talks about the Coriolis effect, and the easterly direction of the trade winds. Finally, Kant provides an account of monsoon winds. The atmosphere should be thought of as a sea of fluid, elastic material constituted, as it were, of layers of different density, which decreases as the height increases.