Metaphysical poets the Metaphysical style. The choice of style by the young Milton and the young Dryden can therefore be explained in part as contextual. Both went on to develop radically different ways of writing; neither could be counted as potentially Metaphysical poets. Nor could Alexander Pope, yet his early poetry evidences an interest in his Metaphysical forebears. Among his juvenilia appear imitations of Cowley. As a young man he began work on adapting Donne's second satire, to which he had added the fourth satire too by 1735. Pope also wrote his “Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady” (1717) while
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