In a century of eclectic geniuses, Casanova was a supreme polymath. |
The polymath Anthony Burgess was on hand to supply the English subtitles, preserving the dialogue's alexandrine form. |
Athanasius Kircher, the eccentric seventeenth-century Jesuit polymath, collector of curiosities, and borderline crank. |
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. |
An autodidact and a polymath, Wallace studied economics, meteorology, history, genetics, and many other subjects. |
An autodidact and a polymath, he studied economics, meteorology, history, genetics, and many other subjects. |