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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 ==
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*[[Maimonides]]
*[[Albertus Magnus]]
*[[Roger Bacon]]
*[[Giotto di Bondone]]
*[[Nicholas of Cusa]]
*[[Leonardo da Vinci]]
*[[Giovanni Pico della Mirandola]]
*[[Albrecht Dürer]]
*[[Nicolaus Copernicus]]
*[[Galileo Galilei]]
*[[Leon Battista Alberti]] A Renaissance ideal. 
*[[Francis Bacon]]
*[[Thomas Hobbes]]
*[[Blaise Pascal]]
*[[Isaac Newton]]
*[[Gottfried Leibniz]]
*[[Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz]]
*[[Benjamin Franklin]]
*[[Charles Willson Peale]]
*[[Thomas Jefferson]]
*[[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]]
*[[William Blake]]
*[[William Thornton]]
*[[Samuel Morse]]
*[[Mary Somerville]]
*[[Harriet Martineau]]
*[[John Stuart Mill]]
*[[Paul Morphy]]
*[[Charles Peirce]]
*[[Rudolf Steiner]]
*[[H. G. Wells]]
*[[Albert Schweitzer]]
*[[Pavel Florensky]]

== See also ==

*[[Seven Sages of Greece]]





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