| 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. |
| He was a polymath and was offered a history scholarship before opting for medicine. |
| Athanasius Kircher, the eccentric seventeenth-century Jesuit polymath, collector of curiosities, and borderline crank. |
| Sure, Flavin was no polymath, no Renaissance man, though he did share with Leonardo an empiricist's preoccupation with light and its effect on perception. |
| This wiry, cultured, multilingual polymath with owl-like eyes, who died in 1967 leaving no memoir, is the ghost in the film's machine. |
| In a century of eclectic geniuses, Casanova was a supreme polymath. |
