Here Aristotle insists that all four causes are involved in the explanation of natural phenomena, and that the job of "the student of nature is to bring the why-question back to them all in the way appropriate to the science of nature" (Phys. 198 a 21 23).
When the student of nature is concerned with the explanation of a natural phenomenon like the formation of sharp teeth in the front and broad molars in the back of the mouth, the student of nature is concerned with what is typical about that phenomenon.
The best way to understand this methodological recommendation is the following: the science of nature is concerned with natural bodies insofar as they are subject to change, and the job of the student of nature is to provide the explanation of their natural change.
In the Physics, Aristotle builds on his general account of the four causes in order to provide the student of nature with the explanatory resources indispensable for a successful investigation of the natural world.
"No student of nature should go out now expecting to find a new world".
Dürer was an accurate, loving student of nature; his art is full of meticulous, captivating depictions of vegetation, animals, even a clod of earth.
To the student of nature this means that the account of origins in Genesis is a factual presentation of simple historical truths.
Stubbs, both as a student of nature who dissected a horse and an eerily philosophical contemplative painter, is a visionary Enlightenment artist in the same league as his French equivalent Chardin.
An avid student of nature, she did not romanticize: A Bird came down the Walk — He did not know I saw — He bit an Angleworm in halves And ate the fellow, raw..
