Polymath

The Last Man Who Knew Everything: Thomas Young, The Anonymous Polymath Who Proved Newton Wrong, Explained How We See, Cured the Sick, and Deciphered the Rosetta Stone, Among Other Feats of Genius by Andrew Robinson

Physics textbooks identify Thomas Young (1773-1829 more...0 points

Physics textbooks identify Thomas Young (1773-1829) as the experimenter who first proved that light is a wave--not a stream of corpuscles as Newton proclaimed. In any book on the eye and vision, Young is the London physician who showed how the eye focuses and proposed the three-color theory of vision confirmed only in 1959. In any book on ancient Egypt, Young is credited for his crucial detective work in deciphering the Rosetta Stone. It is hard to grasp how much he knew.Invited to contribute to...0 points

Polymath of the Baroque: Agostino Steffani and His Music by Colin Timms

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This is the first book to consider all aspects of the life of Agostino Steffani (1654-1728), a composer, diplomat, and bishop. A remarkable figure of the late 17th and early 18th century Europe, Steffani began his career as a composer, musician, and courtier, but his accomplishments broughthim high-level positions in the courts of Germany and the Catholic Church. Throughout his diplomatic and ecclesiatical career, Steffani continued to compose chamber music, vocal chamber music, operas, and sacr...0 points

The Polymath by Bensalem Himmich

This award-winning historical novel deals with the more...0 points

This award-winning historical novel deals with the stormy life of the outstanding Arab philosopher Ibn Khaldun, using historical sources, and particularly material from the writer's works, to construct the personal and intellectual universe of a fourteenth-century genius. The dominant concern of the novel -- the uneasy relationship between intellectuals and political power, between scholars and authority -- addresses our times through the transparent veil of history. In the first part of the nov...0 points

Rabbi Abraham Ibn Ezra: Studies in the Writings of a Twelfth-Century Jewish Polymath (Harvard Judaic Texts and Studies)

The biblical commentaries of Rabbi Abraham Ion Ezr more...0 points

The biblical commentaries of Rabbi Abraham Ion Ezra (1089/1092-1164/1167) have become indispensable to anyone desiring a full appreciation of the biblical text, and this noted scholar also wrote extensively on philology, philosophy. mathematics, and astrology. The six essays in this hook explore lbn Ezra's multi-faceted work and intellectual legacy. They illuminate his exegetical methodology; the role of astrology in his work; his philological insights into the Hebrew language; the possibility o...0 points

The Yeager Mystique: The polymath as teacher, scholar and colleague (Discussion paper) by William Breit

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Bertrand Russell: Polymath by Emery Beneby

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Joannes Marcus Marci: A seventeenth-century Bohemian polymath

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Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarthy (1611-1660 : Adventurer, Polymath, and Translator of Rabelais) by R. J. Craik

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Polymath by John Brunner

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Editing Polymaths: Erasmus to Russell

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The Polymath: Reverand William Rees by D. Ben Rees

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Poets and Polymaths: Special Collections at the University of Sussex

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Schrödinger: Centenary Celebration of a Polymath

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