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Definition of natural philosophy in English: natural philosophynoun mass nounarchaic Natural science, especially physical science. 〈古〉自然哲学(指自然科学,尤指物理科学) Example sentencesExamples - When Muir entered the Wisconsin State University in 1861 he chose to follow the science curriculum, taking courses on natural philosophy and chemistry.
- This relationship would prompt Descartes to make public his thoughts on natural philosophy (science).
- Academically, Cambridge was characterized by the growth of science, or natural philosophy as it was called, with Newton at Trinity its best-known exponent.
- At his father's wish, in 1581 he enrolled at the University of Pisa to study medicine, but his first love was mathematics and natural philosophy.
- They weren't physicists and chemists in those days, they were natural philosophers, and natural philosophy included mathematics.
- Within natural philosophy he gave new direction to optics, mechanics, and celestial dynamics.
- Before the book was published Sneddon had returned to Glasgow as a lecturer in physics, or rather natural philosophy as the subject was called in the ancient Scottish Universities at that time.
- But they repudiated mechanistic natural philosophy in favour of the view that spirit is the fundamental causal principle in the operations of nature.
- Bacon's interest in mathematics and natural philosophy, probably aroused by Peregrinus, took over his life in Oxford after he returned there in 1247.
- Many mathematicians were interested in natural philosophy, and geology in particular.
- The secularization of concepts of space was necessary to the new natural philosophy or science.
- Another topic to which Aristotle made major contributions was natural philosophy or rather physics by today's terminology.
- But she also transgressed social norms by dedicating herself to Newtonian natural philosophy.
- Robert Hamilton succeeded John Mair at the Perth Academy in 1769, later moving to university posts in natural philosophy and mathematics.
- Partly it is because many Renaissance humanists for their part were indifferent to or even opposed the scholastic natural philosophy and medicine of their time.
Derivativesnoun archaic On the whole, the vortex theory offered the natural philosopher a highly intuitive model of celestial phenomena that was compatible with the mechanical philosophy. Example sentencesExamples - This young natural philosopher mastered the art of careful experimentation in chemistry and physics.
- By 1704 Newton was fast becoming England's most eminent natural philosopher.
- Traditionally, however, natural philosophers considered mathematics unrelated to physics, on the grounds it dealt with abstract not corporeal objects.
- In Science, I've written an essay about what seventeenth-century natural philosophers have to teach twenty-first century neuroscientists about the brain.
- According to Newton, the natural philosopher may establish that phenomena are related in a certain way, but cannot establish that the relation could not be otherwise.
Definition of natural philosophy in US English: natural philosophynoun archaic Natural science, especially physical science. 〈古〉自然哲学(指自然科学,尤指物理科学) Example sentencesExamples - Partly it is because many Renaissance humanists for their part were indifferent to or even opposed the scholastic natural philosophy and medicine of their time.
- When Muir entered the Wisconsin State University in 1861 he chose to follow the science curriculum, taking courses on natural philosophy and chemistry.
- Academically, Cambridge was characterized by the growth of science, or natural philosophy as it was called, with Newton at Trinity its best-known exponent.
- Robert Hamilton succeeded John Mair at the Perth Academy in 1769, later moving to university posts in natural philosophy and mathematics.
- This relationship would prompt Descartes to make public his thoughts on natural philosophy (science).
- But she also transgressed social norms by dedicating herself to Newtonian natural philosophy.
- At his father's wish, in 1581 he enrolled at the University of Pisa to study medicine, but his first love was mathematics and natural philosophy.
- Bacon's interest in mathematics and natural philosophy, probably aroused by Peregrinus, took over his life in Oxford after he returned there in 1247.
- Many mathematicians were interested in natural philosophy, and geology in particular.
- Another topic to which Aristotle made major contributions was natural philosophy or rather physics by today's terminology.
- But they repudiated mechanistic natural philosophy in favour of the view that spirit is the fundamental causal principle in the operations of nature.
- The secularization of concepts of space was necessary to the new natural philosophy or science.
- Before the book was published Sneddon had returned to Glasgow as a lecturer in physics, or rather natural philosophy as the subject was called in the ancient Scottish Universities at that time.
- Within natural philosophy he gave new direction to optics, mechanics, and celestial dynamics.
- They weren't physicists and chemists in those days, they were natural philosophers, and natural philosophy included mathematics.
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