Polymath

A Polymath is a person with encyclopedic, broad or varied knowledge. Related terms are Renaissance Man and Homo Universalis.

Some recognized polymaths

Charles Willson Peale, Self-Portrait

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 Rene Descartes Blaise Pascal Isaac Newton Gottfried Leibniz Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Benjamin Franklin Immanuel Kant 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
• Skepticism
• Epistemology