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natural philosophy (now only used in Scottish universities) physical science, esp physics How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| How important the collaboration between artisans and natural philosophers and physicians was, not only for their own intellectual development, but also, for the rise of the sciences and medicine in the seventeenth and eighteenth century has been recently pointed to in several studies in the history of science. Two examples from early modern science, which contrast the scholastic documentary practices of continental natural philosophers to those of their peers in Restoration England, illustrate the richness of the factors that must be taken into account to understand how documents become informing. We would be the last person to deny the significance of these other natural philosophers, but their pertinence does not detract from the central importance of the natural philosophy set forth by Ibn Sina in several of his works (especially the first book of the tabi'iyyat entitled fann al-sama' al-tabi'i in the Shifa'). |
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