Natural philosopher

Everitt, C. W. F. 1975). James Clerk Maxwell, Physicist and Natural Philosopher. New York Scribner. 

In the period following the War of the Spanish Succession of 1714, Newton enjoyed a reputation as the most important natural philosopher of his day. His scientific output during the last twenty years of his life was restricted to the revision of his major works and in defending himself against his many critics. In his private life, he was modest, generous, and given to simple tastes however was buried with great fanfare in Westminster Abbey. 

The Voltaie battery eoneeived and built toward the end of 1799 in Como, was the first deviee to produee a steady flow of eleetrieity, or eleetrie eurrent. The instrument enabled other natural philosophers, notably Humphry Davy, to develop eleetroehemistry as a new braneh of seienee, and still others, notably Hans Christian Oersted and Georg Simon Ohm, to explore eleetromagnetism. Beeause of these later developments—showing that ehemieal, eleetrieal... 

Suchten, Alexander von. "An explanation of the natural philosopher s tincture of Theophrastus Paracelsus." In A golden and blessed casket of Nature s marvels, ed. Benedictus Figulus, 192-258., 1893. 

Field, J.V. and Frank A.J.L. James, eds.Renaissance and revolution humanists, scholars, craftsmen and natural Philosophers in Early Modem Europe. Ed. by J.V. Field and Frank A.J.L. James. Cambridge Cambridge Univ. P., 1993. 291p. 

Abate, Mark T. "Roger Bacon and the rage of antichrist the apocalypse of a thirteenth century natural philosopher." PhD thesis, Boston University, 2000. 

Widespread Interest in Arabic in 17th Century England Among Biblical Scholars, Theologians, Natural Philosophers and Fellow of the Royal Society, As Well As Others. 

Unbeknownst to all, it is love that set the Coiner on his traitorous course the desperate need to protect the woman of his heart — the remarkable Eliza, Duchess of Arcachon-Qwghlm — from those who would destroy her should he fail. Meanwhile, Daniel Waterhouse and his Clubb of unlikely cronies comb city and country for clues to the identity of the blackguard who is attempting to blow up Natural Philosophers with Infernal Devices — as political factions jockey for position while awaiting the impending... 

Nature philosophers were conspicuously influenced by the monad and routinely developed their concepts of life around these irreducible units. 

Borrowing from Eric Hobsbawm, we may say that scientists, like others, have "invented traditions, legitimating and promoting their new scientific field."36 But chemists, more than natural philosophers and physicists, inte-... 

It is interesting to conjecture that if chemists have spent less effort than physicists reflecting on the philosophical foundations of their subject, the reason may be illuminated by Bas Van Frassen s claim that the closer contemporary physicists are to experimental work, the less interested they are in fundamental questions. Chemists have always been closer to experimental work, more thoroughly involved in the laboratory than natural philosophers, and less interested in idealizations of phenomena. 

To the question, what is the cause of a chemical reaction Lavoisier s answer was descriptive and concrete, not geometric and abstract. Lavoisier did not rule out the possibility of an abstract and geometric chemical philosophy in the future but thought it was premature at the time. An avid investigator of the chemistry of organisms as well as of mineral substances, Lavoisier for the present shared the view of his contemporary, the British natural philosopher John Robison, that the phenomena of fermentation, nutrition, secretion, and crystallization are not susceptible to simple mechanical reasoning. 

The modern science of chemistry began during the eighteenth century, when several brilliant natural philosophers classified the products of decomposition into a small number of fundamental substances. For example, in 1774, the Englishman Joseph Priestley discovered that when the red powder mercuric oxide was heated, it decomposed to liquid metal mercury and to a colorless gas capable of supporting combustion. (This gas... 

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