[Tyler]

Let's Bring The Polymath -- and the Dabblers -- Back
13 December 2013, 12:00 am

I noticed recently that books with the phrase "The Last Man Who Knew Everything" all share in common that their subjects lived during the period close to the Scientific Revolution, roughly between 1550 to 1700. (The examples I own are about Athanasius Kircher, a Jesuit priest born in 1602; Thomas Young, who studied topics such as optics and philology and was born in 1773; and Philadelphia area professor Joseph Leidy, who was born in 1823. WiredLink.

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