Polymath

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

## Some recognized polymaths[edit]

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

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## See also[edit]

* Seven Sages of Greece
* Skepticism
* Epistemology