Usage of "natural philosophy"

Russian

натуральная философия

Portuguese

filosofia da natureza

Catalan

filosofia de la natura

Spanish

cosmologia

Ancient philosophical study of nature and physical universe that was dominant before the development of modern science.

philosophy of nature

Related terms

branch of science

натуральная философия

Portuguese

física

Catalan

física

Spanish

física

The science of matter and energy and their interactions.

física

Usage of natural philosophy in English

Besides, I had a contempt for the uses of modern natural philosophy. 
 Frankenstein, or the modern Prometheus 

We need not be surprized, that this should happen in natural philosophy. 
 A Treatise of Human Nature 

Still we can not apply natural philosophy to conditions under the earth. 
 Five Thousand Miles Underground; Or, the Mystery of the Centre o... 

After that he entered the University, and devoted himself to natural philosophy. 
 Heroes of the Telegraph 

A classification of natural entities is the beginning of natural philosophy. 
 The Concept of Nature / The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity... 

Thus natural philosophy was considered in the light merely of a mental exercise. 
 Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2 

Seneca wrote largely on natural philosophy, and magnified the importance of that study. 
 Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2 

He studied medicine and natural philosophy when very young, and under promising patronage. 
 The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 20,... 

If poetry deals with moral philosophy, painting deals with natural philosophy. 
 The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Volume 1 

And by lectures-inbotany, geology, zoology, comparative anatomy, and natural philosophy. 
 Thoughts on Educational Topics and Institutions 

Hence a student cannot comprehend chemistry without natural philosophy, nor biology without both. 
 Practical Essays 

Interest in natural philosophy and science was on the increase among the literate laity. 
 A Canticle For Leibowitz 

But even in those two great epochs little progress was made in natural philosophy. 
 The Idea of Progress: An Inquiry into Its Origin and Growth 

Some writers apply themselves to studies boundless and inexhaustible, as experiments in natural philosophy. 
 The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes, Volume 03 / ... 

Books on natural philosophy abound, some of which are written by the emperors themselves. 
 Handbook of Universal Literature, From the Best and Latest Autho... 

Then in 1826 he became teacher of mathematics and natural philosophy in the Albany Academy. 
 The Age of Invention: A Chronicle of Mechanical Conquest 