natural philosopher
- a word derived from natural philosophy.
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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 relationship between the volume and pressure of a given amount of gas at constant temperature was first published by the English natural philosopher Robert Boyle over 300 years ago.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 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
“But you say they were gods?” asked Mouzaive, the natural philosopher, who was hard-pressed to believe in the divine.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
