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David Martin
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polymath
individual whose knowledge spans a significant number of subjects
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Details
Instance of
occupation
Subclass of
intellectual
described by source
Otto's encyclopedia
female form of label
موسوعية
, Universalgelehrte
, polímata
, אשת אשכולות
, polimata
, موسوعية
, polihistorka
hashtag
polymath
male form of label
موسوعي
, موسوعي
model item
Avicenna
,
Leonardo da Vinci
,
José Rizal
,
René Descartes
opposite of
expert idiot
partially coincident with
multipotentiality
,
philomath
topic's main category
Category:Polymaths
Creators in this collection
(52)
Leonardo da Vinci
1452
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1749
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
1646
Avicenna
980
Hildegard of Bingen
1098
Ruđer Josip Bošković
1711
Mikhail Lomonosov
1711
Henri Poincaré
1854
José Rizal
1861
René Descartes
1596
Connected on Wikidata
Subject of
The Polymath
Polyhistor
A Prodigy of Universal Genius: Robert Leslie Ellis, 1817-1859
Authority files
GND ↗
Encyclopædia Britannica ↗
Carlos Fuentes
1928
Nasir al-Din al-Tusi
1201
Benjamin Franklin
1706
Al-Biruni
973
Pavao Ritter Vitezović
1652
Isidore of Seville
560
Francesco Redi
1626
Girolamo Fracastoro
1478
Albrecht von Haller
1708
Yang Xiong
53 BCE
Bahāʾ al-dīn al-ʿĀmilī
1547
John Muir
1838
Athanasius Kircher
1602
Gu Yanwu
1613
Heinrich Glarean
1488
Elizabeth Carter
1717
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
1486
Caspar Barlaeus
1584
Jára Cimrman
1853
Wenceslas Cobergher
1560
Diego de Torres Villarroel
1693
Heinrich Meibom
1638
Georgios Pachymeres
1242
Johannes Schefferus
1621
Ibn Funduq
1097
Yuri Zhdanov
1919
Hans Conrad Escher von der Linth
1767
Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi
1162
Cesare Ripa
1555
Johann Weikhard von Valvasor
1641
Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq
1522
Hernán Núñez
1475
Caspar Bartholin the Elder
1585
Peter Lambeck
1628
Samuel Hartlib
1600
Veit Ludwig von Seckendorff
1626
Johann Gottfried Gruber
1774
Szymon Starowolski
1588
Martin Sarmiento
1695
Hieronymus Megiser
1553
Johann Christoph Wagenseil
1633
José de Viera y Clavijo
1731