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词汇 natural philosophy
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Definition of natural philosophy in English:

natural philosophy

noun
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.

Derivatives

  • natural philosopher

  • noun
    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 philosophy

noun
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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