| This wiry, cultured, multilingual polymath with owl-like eyes, who died in 1967 leaving no memoir, is the ghost in the film's machine. |
| What I didn't know at the time was he was also a polymath, with a wide range of interests and a photographic memory. |
| However, the main point I’d like to state here is that you cannot be a polymath without first having been a philomath as every polymath was first a philomath. |
| Sure, Flavin was no polymath, no Renaissance man, though he did share with Leonardo an empiricist's preoccupation with light and its effect on perception. |
| A prodigious polymath, he wrote on subjects as varied as grammar and gout, ethics and eczema, and was highly regarded in his lifetime as a philosopher as well as a doctor. |
| Athanasius Kircher, the eccentric seventeenth-century Jesuit polymath, collector of curiosities, and borderline crank. |
