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| − | '''Polymath''' is a person with encyclopedic, broad or varied [[knowledge]]. Related terms are ''Renaissance Man'' and ''Homo Universalis''. | + | '''Polymath''' is a person with encyclopedic, broad or varied [[knowledge]]. Related terms are ''[[Renaissance Man]]'' and ''Homo Universalis''. |
== Some recognized polymaths == | == Some recognized polymaths == | ||
Revision as of 14:58, February 14, 2009
Polymath is a person with encyclopedic, broad or varied knowledge. Related terms are Renaissance Man and Homo Universalis.
Some recognized polymaths
- 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
- William Blake
- Thomas Jefferson
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Samuel Morse
- Mary Somerville
- Harriet Martineau
- John Stuart Mill
- Paul Morphy
- Charles Peirce
- Rudolf Steiner
- H. G. Wells
- Albert Schweitzer
- Pavel Florensky