The Polymath: A Cultural History from Leonardo da Vinci to Susan Sontag by Peter Burke

The Polymath: A Cultural History from Leonardo da Vinci to Susan Sontag

Peter Burke

352 pages first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative slow-paced
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The first history of the western polymath, from the fifteenth century to the present day 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 countl...

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