Relative Motion and Copernican Revolution

Also written by Kant between the two editions of the 1st Critique is the Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science, the main theme of which is the relativity of Motion.  One prominent example in this work is the motion of a body rotating on its axis, while, on the other hand, there seems to be no attention to heliocentric phenomena.  Thus, while there is no reference to Copernicus in these passages, they tend to confirm the hypothesis, previously presented here, that the allusion to him in the B edition of the 1st Critique concerns the rotation of the Earth on its axis, not the orbiting of the Earth around the Sun, as the traditional interpretation of Kant's 'Copernican revolution' has it.