Metaphysical poets of Wotton himself that prefaced the collection of Wotton's works in 1651. A life of George Herbert followed them in 1670. The links between Donne’s elegists were thus of a different order from those between Donne and his circle of friends, often no more than professional acquaintanceship. And once the poetic style had been launched, its tone and approach remained available as a model for later writers who might not necessarily commit themselves so wholly to it. Metaphysical poets The term metaphysical poets was coined by the critic Samuel Johnson to describe a loose group of 17th-century English poets whose
Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science of this kind of presentation, without, however, drawing attention to it himself." Kurt Gödel was influenced by "Metaphysische Anfangsgründe der Naturwissenschaft". Gödel studied it while a member of the Vienna Circle. Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science () is a 1786 book by Immanuel Kant. The book is divided into four chapters. The chapters are concerned with the metaphysical foundations of phoronomy (now called kinematics), dynamics, mechanics, and phenomenology. Kant's book was a basic influence on the rise of science departments of the universities in the German-speaking countries in the nineteenth century. Hans Christian Ørsted wrote