The Economic Times

In 1755, Immanuel Kant earned a degree with a study of fire; the philosophers early work explored nature long before his famous moral theories

Long before Immanuel Kant mapped the boundaries of human reason or drafted his famous moral theories, he spent his early academic years studying the physics of fire. In 1755, he earned a higher degree with a Latin treatise that examined heat, fluidity, and the mechanics of elastic matter. That lesser-known work revealed a curious mind deeply fascinated by the material universe long before he turned entirely toward abstract philosophy.