Meaning of natural philosophy | Babel Free

Definitions

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

historical, uncountable

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level