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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 [[encyclopedia|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]]
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*[[Maimonides]]
*[[Maimonides]]
*[[Albertus Magnus]]
*[[Albertus Magnus]]
*[[Roger Bacon]]
*[[Giotto di Bondone]]
*[[Nicholas of Cusa]]
*[[Nicholas of Cusa]]
*[[Leonardo da Vinci]]
*[[Leonardo da Vinci]]
*[[Nicolaus Copernicus]]
*[[Nicolaus Copernicus]]
*[[Galileo Galilei]]
*[[Galileo Galilei]]
*[[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]]
*[[Blaise Pascal]]
*[[Blaise Pascal]]
*[[Isaac Newton]]
*[[Isaac Newton]]
*[[Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz]]
*[[Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz]]
*[[Benjamin Franklin]]
*[[Benjamin Franklin]]
*[[Immanuel Kant]]
*[[Charles Willson Peale]]
*[[Thomas Jefferson]]
*[[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]].
*[[William Blake]]
*[[William Blake]]
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*[[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]]
*William Thornton
*[[Samuel Morse]]
*[[Samuel Morse]]
*[[Mary Somerville]]
*[[Mary Somerville]]
*[[Albert Schweitzer]]
*[[Albert Schweitzer]]
*[[Pavel Florensky]]
*[[Pavel Florensky]]
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== Polymaths and self-education ==
''See also:'' [[Autodidacticism]]
[[Autodidacticism]] (Self-education) is the practice of [[education]] and/or learning skills without the guidance of schools/schoolmasters (i.e., teachers, professors, institutions, [[mentor]]s). A person who is self-taught is an autodidact.
Frequently people who are polymaths are also autodidacts, and vice versa.<ref>[https://knowledgelust.com/autodidact-vs-polymath-whats-the-difference-can-you-be-both/#:~:text=Autodidacts%20are%20people%20who%20teach,have%20been%20one%20or%20both. Autodidact vs. Polymath: What’s the Difference & Can You Be Both?]</ref>
== See also ==
*[[Seven Sages of Greece]]
*[[Skepticism]]
*[[Epistemology]]
== References ==
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