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natural philosophy

noun

Definitions

  1. The objective study of nature in the widest sense

    The objective study of nature in the widest sense; science or the protoscience that led to it; (later especially) physics.

    • Those who have treated of natural philoſophy, may be nearly reduced to three claſſes.
    • Next to Mathematics, the study of natural philosophy tends to have anti-aphrodisiac effects.
    • The discipline which is the ancestor of modern specializations like astronomy, biology, physics and chemistry was then called natural philosophy.

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