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− | '''Polymath''' is a person with encyclopedic, broad or varied [[knowledge]]. Related terms are ''Renaissance Man'' and ''Homo Universalis''. | + | A '''Polymath''' is a person with encyclopedic, broad or varied [[knowledge]]. Related terms are ''[[Renaissance Man]]'' and ''Homo Universalis''. |
== Some recognized polymaths == | == Some recognized polymaths == | ||
[[Image:Leonardo da Vinci.jpg|right]] | [[Image:Leonardo da Vinci.jpg|right]] | ||
+ | [[File:Charles Willson Peale Self Portrait 1822.jpg|thumb|Charles Willson Peale, Self-Portrait]] | ||
+ | {| class="wikitable" | ||
+ | |- | ||
+ | | | ||
*[[Maimonides]] | *[[Maimonides]] | ||
*[[Albertus Magnus]] | *[[Albertus Magnus]] | ||
+ | *[[Roger Bacon]] | ||
+ | *[[Giotto di Bondone]] | ||
+ | *[[Nicholas of Cusa]] | ||
*[[Leonardo da Vinci]] | *[[Leonardo da Vinci]] | ||
*[[Giovanni Pico della Mirandola]] | *[[Giovanni Pico della Mirandola]] | ||
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*[[Leon Battista Alberti]] A Renaissance ideal. | *[[Leon Battista Alberti]] A Renaissance ideal. | ||
*[[Francis Bacon]] | *[[Francis Bacon]] | ||
+ | | | ||
+ | *[[Thomas Hobbes]] | ||
+ | *[[Rene Descartes]] | ||
*[[Blaise Pascal]] | *[[Blaise Pascal]] | ||
*[[Isaac Newton]] | *[[Isaac Newton]] | ||
+ | *[[Gottfried Leibniz]] | ||
+ | *[[Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz]] | ||
*[[Benjamin Franklin]] | *[[Benjamin Franklin]] | ||
+ | *[[Immanuel Kant]] | ||
+ | *[[Charles Willson Peale]] | ||
*[[Thomas Jefferson]] | *[[Thomas Jefferson]] | ||
− | *[[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]] | + | *[[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]]. |
+ | *[[William Blake]] | ||
+ | | | ||
+ | *[[William Thornton]] | ||
+ | *[[Samuel Morse]] | ||
*[[Mary Somerville]] | *[[Mary Somerville]] | ||
*[[Harriet Martineau]] | *[[Harriet Martineau]] | ||
+ | *[[John Stuart Mill]] | ||
+ | *[[Paul Morphy]] | ||
*[[Charles Peirce]] | *[[Charles Peirce]] | ||
− | *[[ | + | *[[Rudolf Steiner]] |
− | + | ||
*[[H. G. Wells]] | *[[H. G. Wells]] | ||
*[[Albert Schweitzer]] | *[[Albert Schweitzer]] | ||
+ | *[[Pavel Florensky]] | ||
+ | <br> | ||
+ | |} | ||
+ | == See also == | ||
− | + | *[[Seven Sages of Greece]] | |
+ | *[[Skepticism]] | ||
+ | *[[Epistemology]] | ||
[[Category:Dictionary]] | [[Category:Dictionary]] | ||
+ | [[Category:Philosophy]] |
Latest revision as of 17:41, July 13, 2016
A Polymath is a person with encyclopedic, broad or varied knowledge. Related terms are Renaissance Man and Homo Universalis.
Some recognized polymaths
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