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natural philosophy en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (historical, uncountable) The objective study of nature in the widest sense; science or the protoscience that led to it; (later especially) physics.
    • Next to Mathematics, the study of natural philosophy tends to have anti-aphrodisiac effects. 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 163:
    • The discipline which is the ancestor of modern specializations like astronomy, biology, physics and chemistry was then called natural philosophy. 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 772:
    • Those who have treated of natural philoſophy, may be nearly reduced to three claſſes. 1729, Roger Cotes, “The Preface of Mr. Roger Cotes, to the Second Edition of this Work, so far as It Relates to the Inventions and Discoveries herein Contained”, in Isaac Newton, translated by Andrew Motte, The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy. […] , volume I, London: […] Benjamin Motte, […], →OCLC:

Translations (2)

la philosophia naturalis (objective study of nature) · enm philosophie (objective study of nature)