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A polymath is a person who excels in multiple fields, particularly in both arts and sciences. Another term for this is Renaissance man, as many notable polymaths lived during the European Renaissance period. On the other hand 'polymath' may be applied more strictly taking Leonardo Da Vinci as the prime example, and requiring a universality of approach.
Examples include:
- Leone Battista Alberti
- Aristotle
- Gregory Bateson
- Anicius Manlius Severinus Boëthius
- Jacob Bronowski
- Sir Thomas Browne
- Sir George Cayley
- Albrecht Dürer
- Benjamin Franklin
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Christiaan Huygens
- Athanasius Kircher
- Mikhail Lomonosov
- Maimonides, or RaMBaM
- Jonathan Miller
- Ptolemy
- Pythagoras
- Abu Bakr Mohammad Ibn Zakariya al-Razi, or Rhazes
- Herbert Simon
- Nikola Tesla (electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and physicist)
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Liu E
