natural philosopher

During these years his career as a natural philosopher began to take off.

At the time when he lived, people like him were called natural philosophers.

You of all people, as a natural philosopher, should appreciate that.

"Oh, he is the Jewish natural philosopher you told me about?"

For the natural philosophers knew certain things were possible, even if they didn't know how, and this was half the battle.

"You look like a natural philosopher studying the behavior of penguins."

They are, in fact, just the kind of thing the natural philosopher might be interested in.

He studied him natural philosopher examining some new species of insect.

In the old days, they burned the mills and put their natural philosophers on the rack.

"A natural philosopher, who'd sailed round the world six times.

The two natural philosophers above could not exist in such an environment and found their own ways to fight this stagnant situation.

Oh, right... what more could any natural philosopher dream of?

Then natural philosophers began to propose earthly sources such as a rock or mountain.

We have connected him with the natural philosophers because of his prominence in Science.'

He had imprudently taken a bath at too high a temperature, and the natural philosopher was no more!

Instead, he focused on gases and "changes in their sensible properties", as had natural philosophers before him.

In other words, she is downplaying her knowledge of the technical vocabulary used by natural philosophers.

Huygens was a leading natural philosopher of his time.

"He told me he'd met a natural philosopher in Edinburgh, and had a most interesting conversation about.

The learned Hellenes from the south called the druids "natural philosophers."

He was also a natural philosopher and the Dean of Carlisle.

(They had previously been known as "natural philosophers" or "men of science").

And he eyed me the way a natural philosopher will eye a nondescript beetle.

Touchstone calls him a "natural philosopher," a comment with a double meaning.

The process should be conceived by supposing the earth to come into being in the way that some of the natural philosophers describe.