Science and Philosophy in the "Unended Poem on Eternity" of Albrecht von Haller and Its Recovery by Kant's Philosophy

This article strives to reach a twofold goal. The first part of it aims to analyze how Albrecht von Haller succeeded in combining science and metaphysics in his famous "unfinished poem on eternity" (1736). Then the second part tries, to elucidate how the same poem inspired Kant with some cosmological considerations in his Universal Natural History and Theory of the Heavens (1755). In the same way, it has to be established the reason why this poem provided also to Kant an exemplary model of "sublime poetry" the subjective and transcendental conditions of which he analyzed in his last writings while turning to the mind which produces it or which is inspired by it.