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An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon

The historian and biographer John Strype, Knox's cousin, helped him to prepare the book for publication with the encouragement of the natural philosopher and polymath Robert Hooke.

Northumberland, Pennsylvania

Northumberland was the American home of eighteenth-century British theologian, Dissenting clergyman, natural philosopher, educator, and political theorist Joseph Priestley (1733–1804) from 1794 until his death in 1804.

Victor Mordechai Goldschmidt

Victor Mordechai Goldschmidt (February 10, 1853, in Mainz - May 8, 1933, in Salzburg) was a German mineralogist, natural philosopher, and art collector.


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Allamand

Jean-Nicolas-Sébastien Allamand (c. 1713-1716–1787), Swiss-Dutch natural philosopher

Ann Baynard

Ann Baynard (sometimes spelled Anne) (Born 1672 Preston, Lancashire, England - June 12, 1697, Barnes, Surrey) was a British natural philosopher and model of piety.

Brewster Island

It was shown on an Argentine government chart of 1950, and named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1960 for Sir David Brewster, Scottish natural philosopher who in 1844 improved the mirror stereoscope invented by Sir Charles Wheatstone by substituting prisms.

Giacopo Belgrado

Giacopo Belgrado, (Udine November 16, 1704; died in the same city, March 26, 1789) Italian Jesuit and natural philosopher.

Gustavus Katterfelto

He claimed to have launched the first hot air balloon fifteen years before the Montgolfier brothers, and claimed to be the greatest natural philosopher since Isaac Newton.

Peter Newcome

Lord Charles Cavendish married the Duke's daughter Anne Grey, and Henry Cavendish the natural philosopher was their son, and a pupil at Newcome's School from 1742.

Respighi

Lorenzo Respighi (1824-1889), Italian astronomer, mathematician, and natural philosopher

Rudolf Ritsema

In 1956 Ritsema began to collaborate with Froebe and the Swiss zoologist and natural philosopher Adolf Portmann (1897–1982) in the planning of the Eranos Conferences.

Swineshead

Richard Swineshead (fl. c. 1340–1354), English mathematician, logician and natural philosopher