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'''Polymath''' is a person with encyclopedic, broad or varied [[knowledge]]. Related terms are ''Renaissance Man'' and ''Homo Universalis''.   
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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]]
 
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[[File:Charles Willson Peale Self Portrait 1822.jpg|thumb|Charles Willson Peale, Self-Portrait]]
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*[[Maimonides]]
 
*[[Maimonides]]
 
*[[Albertus Magnus]]
 
*[[Albertus Magnus]]
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*[[Roger Bacon]]
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*[[Giotto di Bondone]]
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*[[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]]
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*[[Thomas Hobbes]]
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*[[Rene Descartes]]
 
*[[Blaise Pascal]]
 
*[[Blaise Pascal]]
 
*[[Isaac Newton]]
 
*[[Isaac Newton]]
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*[[Gottfried Leibniz]]
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*[[Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz]]
 
*[[Benjamin Franklin]]
 
*[[Benjamin Franklin]]
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*[[Immanuel Kant]]
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*[[Charles Willson Peale]]
 
*[[Thomas Jefferson]]
 
*[[Thomas Jefferson]]
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*[[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]]
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*[[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]].
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*[[William Blake]]
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*[[William Thornton]]
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*[[Samuel Morse]]
 
*[[Mary Somerville]]
 
*[[Mary Somerville]]
 
*[[Harriet Martineau]]
 
*[[Harriet Martineau]]
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*[[John Stuart Mill]]
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*[[Paul Morphy]]
 
*[[Charles Peirce]]
 
*[[Charles Peirce]]
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*[[Pavel Florensky]]
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*[[Rudolf Steiner]]
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*[[John Stuart Mill]]
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*[[H. G. Wells]]
 
*[[H. G. Wells]]
 
*[[Albert Schweitzer]]
 
*[[Albert Schweitzer]]
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*[[Pavel Florensky]]
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== See also ==
  
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*[[Seven Sages of Greece]]
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*[[Skepticism]]
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*[[Epistemology]]
  
  
  
 
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[[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

Leonardo da Vinci.jpg
Charles Willson Peale, Self-Portrait



See also