Abstract
Abstract Lambert’s choice of genre for his Cosmological Letters – the scholarly correspondence – was conscious and well-founded, as it facilitated a certain form of reflection and presentation. Such letters enabled him to integrate more complex reasoning into the presentation of a specific problem than the scholarly dialogues that had been common since Fontenelle. Lambert needed to integrate sophisticated demonstrations from the theories of probability and teleology, as empirical knowledge was insufficient or unproven. With regard to his subject (the order of the comets, satellites, planets and galaxies of the universe), theonomistic and probabilistic cosmology could be convincingly communicated in the form of letters.
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