I didn't know about all those things, but I do remember hearing that Kant was the first to propose the "primordial solar nebula hypothesis" by which we currently explain the formation of the planets.
He was a clever guy, even if his philosophical works are a chore to read. And an honest philosopher too, not a quack like so many who claimed to follow his footsteps.
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Kant was 31 years old when he wrote what is often credited to E. Hubble: the discovery that galaxies (nebula) are star systems that lie beyond the Milky Way, and thus enlarging our view of the heavens.
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That shows that Kant had good "instincts", but I'm guessing it was Hubble who first came up with some semblance of evidence in support of that theory.