Polymath
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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
- 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
- William Thornton
- Samuel Morse
- Mary Somerville
- Harriet Martineau
- John Stuart Mill
- Paul Morphy
- Charles Peirce
- Rudolf Steiner
- H. G. Wells
- Albert Schweitzer
- Pavel Florensky