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Meanings of natural philosopher in English

Russian
учёный
Portuguese
cientista
Spanish
científica
Catalan
científic
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Person who conducts scientific research into an area of interest.

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учёный
Usage of natural philosopher in English
1
The philosopher had to be something more than a natural philosopher.
An Introduction to Philosophy
2
The natural philosopher can overcome physical difficulties; the political philosopher cannot overcome economic ones.
Confiscation; An Outline
3
He was a musician and a natural philosopher as well.
A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1.
4
But Baby Will was a natural philosopher from his birth.
Sunk at Sea
5
Thoreau called himself a mystic, and a transcendentalist, and a natural philosopher to boot.
The Last Harvest
6
Is he to blame, that I am no natural philosopher, no chemist, no metaphysician?
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4
7
But the least of these was the natural philosopher.
The Last Harvest
8
Charlotte: Forgive me, as I forgive the natural philosopher.
Robert Browning: How to Know Him
9
I may mention that he was brother to Dr. Thomas Young, the celebrated natural philosopher.
James Nasmyth, Engineer: An Autobiography
10
It is enormously reassuring to know that somewhere a natural philosopher is trying to find out.
The Guardian
11
ANAXAGORAS; EMPEDOCLES.-Anaxagorasof Clazomenae, above all else a natural philosopher, settled at Athens about 470 B.C.
Initiation into Philosophy
12
The metaphysician was in peril of the stake as a heretic, the natural philosopher as a magician.
The Destiny of the Soul: A Critical History of the Doctrine of a...
13
The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, Seek simplicity and distrust it.
The Concept of Nature / The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity...
14
He is too great a natural philosopher to be engaged in so foolish and unnecessary a business.
Quit Your Worrying!
15
His father was a great man, a natural philosopher, and almost an Eli Whitney in mechanical ingenuity.
History of the American Clock Business for the Past Sixty Years,...
16
It reacted powerfully upon Priestley's work as "a political thinker and as a natural philosopher."
Priestley in America, 1794-1804
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