Difference between revisions of "Polymath"
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== Some recognized polymaths == | == Some recognized polymaths == | ||
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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]] | *[[Thomas Hobbes]] | ||
*[[Rene Descartes]] | *[[Rene Descartes]] | ||
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*[[Charles Willson Peale]] | *[[Charles Willson Peale]] | ||
*[[Thomas Jefferson]] | *[[Thomas Jefferson]] | ||
*[[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]] | *[[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]] | ||
*[[William Blake]] | *[[William Blake]] | ||
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*[[William Thornton]] | *[[William Thornton]] | ||
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*[[Pavel Florensky]] | *[[Pavel Florensky]] | ||
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== See also == | == See also == | ||
Revision as of 14:36, January 4, 2015
A Polymath is a person with encyclopedic, broad or varied knowledge. Related terms are Renaissance Man and Homo Universalis.
Some recognized polymaths
