Polymath: A Cultural History from Leonardo da Vinci to Susan Sontag
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The first history of the western polymath, from the fifteenth
century to the present day 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 part of their valuable achievements.In this engaging, erudite
account, renowned cultural historian Peter Burke argues for a more
rounded view. Identifying 500 western polymaths, Burke explores
their wide-ranging successes and shows how their rise matched a
rapid growth of knowledge in the age of the invention of printing,
the discovery of the New World and the Scientific Revolution. It is
only more recently that the further acceleration of knowledge has
led to increased specialisation and to an environment that is less
supportive of wide-ranging scholars and scientists.Spanning the
Renaissance to the present day, Burke changes our understanding of
this remarkable intellectual species.
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