It included few professional astronomers but many physicians, men of letters, diplomats, students, polymaths, and variously educated gentlemen.
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We thought him past the best of his powers and knew nothing of hispolymathnature.
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Readers will finish the book well satisfied, and unless they are real historical polymaths, much better informed than they were before they started.
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However, no longer do polymaths write about other polymaths, but specialists about polymaths.
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Something of apolymath, he created links across disciplines and advocated the idea that photosynthesis was adopted by bacteria that arose from the sea bed and subsequently colonised the land.
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A work like this could not be written, nor reviewed, by a single person as the necessary erudition cannot today be found even in onepolymath.
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Fuller sees himself as apolymath, talking about a huge range of intellectual and political trends of the twentieth century.
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You will find that the eight places have to be filled by polymaths if you are to make it work at all.
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One of our goals for the 21st century should be to say goodbye to the schoolboy specialist and greet the schoolboypolymath.
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To cover the subjects raised one would have to be something of apolymath.
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He must be a veritablepolymath.
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I give him full credit for initiating the debate and giving us all the information, indeed for being a veritablepolymath—an engineer who can correct his own gerunds.
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He was acclaimed as the greatestpolymathof his age.
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He was apolymath, and performed research in the fields of geology, mineralogy, botany, chemistry, ethnography, petrology and karstology.
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He was a greatpolymath, being a musician, astronomer, poet, inventor of the term geography and mathematician.
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