For many years, Kant used Baumgarten's Metaphysics as a handbook or manual for his lectures on that topic.
Georg Friedrich Meier translated the Metaphysics from Latin to German, an endeavour which - according to Meier - Baumgarten himself had planned, but could not find the time to execute.
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