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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

“Like Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein,” she added, “he is a natural philosopher who unites a curiosity about the behavior of nature with a playful and profound philosophical mind.”

From Seattle Times • May 11, 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

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

No medieval natural philosopher had a view of natural science as making progress, and no medieval natural philosopher was engaged in research, if we understand that to mean the gathering of relevant new information.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton