KnowraNatural philosophyLinked fromLinked fromThe 18 pages that link to Natural philosophy, each with the reason it gives.All 18Related 5Narrower topic 13Thales of MiletusNarrower topic: Thales is often treated as an early figure in this broader mode of inquiry.Marin MersenneNarrower topic: Mersenne’s investigations belonged to this broad early modern study of the natural world.Pre-Socratic philosophyNarrower topic: Early Greek accounts helped establish nature as something open to rational investigation.Natural scienceNarrower topic: Natural science developed from older attempts to explain nature through observation and reasoning.Cotton MatherNarrower topic: Mather used natural inquiry to connect empirical observations with religious claims.Renaissance magicNarrower topic: Magic operated within natural philosophy's broad effort to explain how the world worked.Margaret CavendishNarrower topic: Her theories belong to early modern debates about how nature should be understood.Gerolamo CardanoNarrower topic: His interests ranged beyond mathematics to explanations of the natural world.History of physicsNarrower topic: Physics emerged from this broader inquiry into causes, matter, motion, and the heavens.John Theophilus DesaguliersNarrower topic: This was the contemporary intellectual field in which Desaguliers taught and published.Anania ShirakatsiNarrower topic: His accounts of the cosmos and natural phenomena exemplify this mode of inquiry.Science in classical antiquityNarrower topic: Ancient inquiry into nature was usually pursued as philosophy rather than as a separate scientific discipline.The Book of HealingNarrower topic: Its questions organize the work’s extensive treatment of the physical world.