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The Polymath: A Cultural History from Leonardo da Vinci to Susan Sontag
By Peter Burke
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By Peter Burke
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From Leonardo Da Vinci to Oliver Sacks: the first history of the western polymath, from the Renaissance to the present
"An absorbing group portrait and intellectual history."—Kirkus Reviews
"An admirable mixture of industry and erudition."—Robert Wilson, Wall Street Journal
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 encycl...
"An absorbing group portrait and intellectual history."—Kirkus Reviews
"An admirable mixture of industry and erudition."—Robert Wilson, Wall Street Journal
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 encycl...