natural philosopher
- a word derived from natural philosophy.
Example Sentences
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Inductive reasoning, on the other hand, played an important role in the work of the English natural philosopher Francis Bacon.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
The Renaissance natural philosopher Paracelsus is credited with a major insight of modern toxicology: the dose, not the substance, makes the poison.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 23, 2019
A contemporary of William Shakespeare, Harriot was an English mathematician, astronomer and natural philosopher whose original work bears comparison with that of Johannes Kepler and Galileo Galilei.
From Nature ● Apr. 16, 2019
The beginnings of this study can be traced to the 1920s, when archaeologists first excavated pits at Stonehenge called Aubrey holes, named after 17th-century natural philosopher John Aubrey.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 2, 2018
“There is a magnetic field between the anchors and the citadel,” Mouzaive, the natural philosopher, was telling Kether, artist of siege engines, in the guildhall dining room.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
