name some other people who held this title ?
They included the great scholars and thinkers of the "Islamic Golden Age", the period of "Renaissance" and the "Enlightenment", who excelled at several fields in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and the arts.
Polymath
Polymaths include the great scholars and thinkers of the Islamic Golden Age, the period of Renaissance and the Enlightenment, who excelled at several fields in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and the arts.
when did leonardo da vinci start painting at what age UNANSWERABLE who is he ? He was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who is widely considered one of the greatest painters of all time. where was he from ? Republic of Florence name some of his early work ? "Baptism of Christ", is one of them. what is the title you mentioned above that he held ? A polymath is an individual whose knowledge spans a significant number of subjects, known to draw on complex bodies of knowledge to solve specific problems.
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Polymath [SEP] Introduction
Von Wowern defined polymathy as "knowledge of various matters, drawn from all kinds of studies [...] ranging freely through all the fields of the disciplines, as far as the human mind, with unwearied industry, is able to pursue them". Von Wowern lists erudition, literature, philology, philomathy and polyhistory as synonyms. Polymaths include the great scholars and thinkers of the Islamic Golden Age, the period of Renaissance and the Enlightenment, who excelled at several fields in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and the arts. In the Italian Renaissance, the idea of the polymath was expressed by Leon Battista Alberti (1404–1472) in the statement that "a man can do all things if he will".