The polymath : a cultural history from Leonardo Da Vinci to Susan Sontag /

From Leonardo Da Vinci to John Dee and Comenius, from George Eliot to Oliver Sacks and Susan Sontag, polymaths have moved the frontiers of knowledge in countless ways. But history can be unkind to scholars with such encyclopaedic interests. All too often these individuals are remembered for just one...

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Main Author:	Burke, Peter, 1937- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press, [2020]
Subjects:	Intellectuals > History. Learning and scholarship > History. Knowledge, Theory of > History.