Un texto de Immanuel Kant sobre las causas de los terremotos (1756)

2005 
RESUMEN: El siguiente texto es la version espanola del primero de los tres ensayos que Kant publico con ocasion del terremoto de Lisboa de 1755. Es un ejercicio tipicamente ilustrado de explicacion de los fenomenos a base de combinar observacion y razonamiento, Kant indaga las posibles causas naturales de los terremotos y trata de extraer consecuencias pragmaticas para paliar consecuencias destructivas. Especial interes historico tiene al respecto su hipotesis de la cominicacion subterranea, a traves de extensas grutas, entre amplias zonas montanosas y sus depresiones correspondientes (rios, lagos, mares), la cual explicaria tanto la direccion de los seismos como la simultaneidad de sus efectos vibratorios en lugares geograficos de ese tipo pero muy distantes entre si. En la misma linea argumentativa se situa su atribucion del mismo origen fisico a terremotos y volcanes: una inflamacion gaseosa en esas grutas subterraneas comunicadas entre si. ABSTRACT: The following text is the Spanish version of the first of three essays that Kant published in the aftermath of the Lisbon earthquake of 1755. In a typical englihnment exercise of explaining phenomena based on a combination of observation and reason, Kant looks into the possible natural causes of earthquakes and tries to extract pragmatic consequences to mitigate their destructive consequences. Of special historic interest is his hypothesis about subterranean comunication between large mauntainous areas and their corresponding depressions (rives, lakes, seas) by means of extensive caverns, which would explain both the direction of the earthquakes and the simultaneity of their vibratory effects in very different geographic areas of this type. His attributing the same physical origin to earthquake and volcanoes can be situated within this same argumentative line: a gaseous ignition in these intercomunicating underground caverns.
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