natural philosopher
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concept
A natural philosopher is a thinker who seeks to understand the principles and causes of the natural world through observation, reasoning, and early scientific inquiry.
Aliases (14)
- ancient Greek philosopher ×28
- metaphysician ×12
- pre-Socratic philosopher ×8
- alchemist ×3
- rationalist philosopher ×3
- Renaissance scientist ×2
- Dutch philosopher ×1
- English natural philosopher ×1
- Enlightenment precursor ×1
- Enlightenment scientist ×1
- Presocratic philosopher ×1
- early modern scientist ×1
- natural historian ×1
- scientific method pioneer ×1
Instances (77)
- Johannes Kepler
- Antisthenes ("ancient Greek philosopher")
- Aristippus ("ancient Greek philosopher")
- Euclid of Megara ("ancient Greek philosopher")
- Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
- St. Thomas Aquinas ("metaphysician")
- Anaxagoras ("ancient Greek philosopher")
- Parmenides ("pre-Socratic philosopher")
- Isaac Newton
- Heraclitus ("ancient Greek philosopher")
- Arthur Schopenhauer ("metaphysician")
- Aristotle ("ancient Greek philosopher")
- Christian Wolff ("rationalist philosopher")
- Robert Boyle
- Robert Hooke
- Baruch Spinoza ("rationalist philosopher")
- Nicolaus Copernicus ("Renaissance scientist")
- Joseph Priestley
- Ibn Arabi ("metaphysician")
- Antoine Lavoisier ("Enlightenment scientist")
- David Attenborough ("natural historian")
- Aristocles ("ancient Greek philosopher")
- Pythagoras ("ancient Greek philosopher")
- Plotinus ("metaphysician")
- Galileo Galilei
- Francis Bacon ("scientific method pioneer")
- Albert the Great
- Cavendish ("English natural philosopher")
- Zeno of Elea ("ancient Greek philosopher")
- Empedocles ("pre-Socratic philosopher")
- Plato ("ancient Greek philosopher")
- Archytas ("ancient Greek philosopher")
- Zeno of Citium ("ancient Greek philosopher")
- Cleanthes of Assos ("ancient Greek philosopher")
- Simmias of Thebes ("ancient Greek philosopher")
- Cebes of Thebes ("ancient Greek philosopher")
- Phaedo of Elis ("ancient Greek philosopher")
- Epicurus ("ancient Greek philosopher")
- Erasmus Darwin
- Theodore de Mayerne ("early modern scientist")
- Crates of Thebes ("ancient Greek philosopher")
- Diogenes of Sinope ("ancient Greek philosopher")
- Gorgias ("ancient Greek philosopher")
- Hipparchia of Maroneia ("ancient Greek philosopher")
- Ichthyas of Megara ("ancient Greek philosopher")
- Clinomachus ("ancient Greek philosopher")
- Al-Farabi ("metaphysician")
- Democritus ("ancient Greek philosopher")
- Arete of Cyrene ("ancient Greek philosopher")
- Thales of Miletus ("ancient Greek philosopher")
- Henry Cavendish
- Jabir ibn Hayyan ("alchemist")
- Protagoras ("ancient Greek philosopher")
- Pyrrho ("ancient Greek philosopher")
- Nicolas Malebranche ("metaphysician")
- David Lewis ("metaphysician")
- Al-Razi (Rhazes) ("alchemist")
- Christiaan Huygens