  Some of Kant's youthful insights have yielded long-lasting contributions to scientific knowledge. His intuition that tides slow down the Earth's rotation over time is correct. In his New Remarks toward an Elucidation of the theory of Winds, Kant correctly explained that North-South winds in our hemisphere suffer a Coriolis deflection due to the Earth's rotation. Moreover, broadly Kantian accounts of planetary formation have been the dominant model since the emergence of sophisticated nebular models in the 1970s (see, e.g., Safronov 1972 and Prentice 1978).