English natural philosopher

H. Boerhaave in Voider, B.d. (1709). Oratio de novis et antiquis. Leiden preface. De Voider delivered the oration on conferring the doctor s degree on the English natural philosopher John Gale. 

Malleable bar platinum became generally available to the European scientific community for the first time in the early months of 1805. The new noble metal, known in Europe only since the mid-18th century, had resisted all prior efforts by experimenters to transform consistently the crude alluvial ore into a chemically pure, malleable metal. Bar platinum was a product of the chemical and metallurgical researches of the English natural philosopher William Hyde Wollaston, who had spent much of the previous 5 years developing and improving a satisfactory production process. The details of his chemical and tech-... 

CSEE, 199-200. See also Isaac Newton, Opticks (London, 1730), Query 31, 375-96, on 394. This is not to say that Boerhaave was a Newtonian pur sang. Only in the beginning of his academic career can Boerhaave be called a Newtonian. Later in life he became more critical of the English natural philosopher. 

Gunpowder was probably first used as early as the eleventh century. The English natural philosopher Roger Bacon (1214-1294) described a method for making gunpowder in 1242. 

English natural philosopher Roger Bacon describes a method for making gunpowder. 

Priestley, Joseph (1733-1804), the English natural philosopher, came to the United States after being the target of mob violence because of his sympathy for the French Revolution. Moving to rural... 

Neither Alpers nor Cook have paid much attention to the importance of religion in the Dutch approach. Alpers has left Calvinism out of her account because in her view the picturing of the world is contrary to the Protestant emphasis on the Scriptures. Cook has stated that strong claims on the relationship between science and Protestantism must be treated with the same scepticism with which the Merton thesis is treated by historians of English science. Rather than pointing to Calvinism, Cook has followed Hooykaas in stating that Catholic, Jewish and Protestant natural philosophers were uni-... 

Newton, Isaac (1643-1727) English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, and theologian who is perceived and considered by a substantial number of scholars and the general public as one of the most influential men in history. 

Michael Faraday (1791—1867), English physicist and chemist (natural philosopher), found the laws of electromagnetic induction and of electrolysis. A self-educated man who knew very little mathematics. 

English scientist (physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, and theologian)... 

Irish-English chemist, physicist, and natural philosopher Born Lismore, County Waterford, Ireland, January 27,1627 Died London, England, December 31,1691 Founder of the Royal Society of London... 

Magisteries, Elixirs, c. Together with his Books Of Renovation Restauration. Of the Tincture of the Philosophers. Of the Manual of the Philosophical Medicinal Stone. Of the Virtues of the Members. Of the Three Principles. And Finally his Seven Books, Of the Degrees and Compositions of Receipts, and Natural Things. Faithfully and plainly Englished, and Published by, J.H. Oxon. London, Printed for W.S. and are to be sold by Thomas Brewster at the Three Bibles in Pauls Church-yard. 1660."... 

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