The polymath a cultural history from Leonardo Da Vinci to Susan Sontag
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 encyclopaedic interests. All too often these individuals are remembered for just one...
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New Haven ; London :
Yale University Press
2020
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| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b43698360*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: What is a Polymath?
- 1. East and West
- 2. The Age of the ̀Renaissance Man', 1400
- 1600
- 3. The Age of ̀Monsters of Erudition', 1600
- 1700
- 4. The Age of the ̀Man of Letters', 1700
- 1850
- 5. The Age of Territoriality, 1850
- 2000
- 6. A Group Portrait
- 7. Habitats
- 8. The Age of Interdisciplinarity.
