| What I didn't know at the time was he was also a polymath, with a wide range of interests and a photographic memory. |
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| An autodidact and a polymath, Wallace studied economics, meteorology, history, genetics, and many other subjects. |
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| An autodidact and a polymath, he studied economics, meteorology, history, genetics, and many other subjects. |
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| The polymath Anthony Burgess was on hand to supply the English subtitles, preserving the dialogue's alexandrine form. |
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| He was a polymath and was offered a history scholarship before opting for medicine. |
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| In high school, I studied American history with a nineteenth-century-style polymath who assigned us readings from Richard Hofstadter. |
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| A prodigious polymath, he wrote on subjects as varied as grammar and gout, ethics and eczema, and was highly regarded in his lifetime as a philosopher as well as a doctor. |
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| In a century of eclectic geniuses, Casanova was a supreme polymath. |
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| Sure, their plump pariah son is now a svelte, BMOC, class president and world-class polymath. |
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| This wiry, cultured, multilingual polymath with owl-like eyes, who died in 1967 leaving no memoir, is the ghost in the film's machine. |
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| Athanasius Kircher, the eccentric seventeenth-century Jesuit polymath, collector of curiosities, and borderline crank. |
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| Athanasius Kircher was a Jesuit priest and polymath, a man of unusual talents. |
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| 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. |
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| Mansfield, 30, who is married with a young child, is something of a polymath. |
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| I have always been fascinated by Durer who represents what I would love to become, a polymath. |
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| Henslow was a polymath who taught Darwin to make careful observations before reaching a conclusion. |
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| Tagore was also a cultural reformer and polymath who modernized Bengali art. |
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| Its pressing area is sealed with four polymath methacrylate doors to be isolated with outside environment. |
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| In the 1930s the breadth of his training enabled him to embark on a career which resulted in him becoming a true polymath. |
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| Alcuin of York, the head of the palatine school, was a renowned polymath of those times. |
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| Leslie was a polymath and lucubrator with a good knowledge of literature, astronomy, geology, genealogy, ornithology, and, particularly, local history. |
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| He is known as a polymath and a polyglot, a great understander and interpreter of modern culture, but above all as a great student of language and how it functions. |
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| Nicolaus Copernicus is the Latinate name of the renowned astronomer and polymath, born in 1473 to a well-placed mercantile family in the Polish town of Torun. |
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| 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. |
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| Perhaps a polymath like Hough knows too much music to be able to filter out his muscle-memory from his own compositions. |
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| John Richardson, naturalist, explorer and naval surgeon was born in Dumfries as was John Craig, mathematician, and polymath James Crichton. |
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| Gourmand, refined traveler, Japanese art connoisseur, and a virtual polymath, Sandra enriched all with her keen perceptivity, enthusiasm, insight and unshakeable resilience. |
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| Could Mr Gaddis, who admits that he speaks no foreign languages, get on top of the mountain of material and do credit to such an international polymath? |
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| Lanchester, a brainy, pleasure-loving polymath, is a novelist, memoirist and journalist who writes sagely and elegantly about food, family, culture, technology and money. |
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| Ebsworth was a polymath who could talk knowledgeably on many subjects. |
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| If Charles I owned a real Leonardo before he was executed in 1649, this means our national love affair with the Renaissance polymath has been going on for almost 400 years. |
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| I recently had the opportunity to look at his collection of native artefacts in the reserves of the McCord Museum in Montreal and it brought out to great advantage the lively mind, the polymath that he was. |
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| He was a polymath, although not one of the most important scientific innovators of the period. |
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| Ambedkar, father of modern India, polymath, jurist, economist, politician and social reformer. |
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| One of the greatest influences on Tolkien was the Arts and Crafts polymath William Morris. |
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| Leonardo da Vinci, a father of paleontology and architecture, has been the most influential polymath. |
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| The New Yorker is a sort-of folk-punk-pop-art polymath who flits effortlessly between writing comic books and writing great songs. |
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| Science and art were intermingled in the early Renaissance, with polymath artists such as Leonardo da Vinci making observational drawings of anatomy and nature. |
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| The polymath Rabindranath Tagore, a Bengali poet, dramatist, and writer from Santiniketan, now in West Bengal, India, became in 1913 the first Asian Nobel laureate. |
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| That's the first time I've been called a polymath, and it doesn't feel very good, All the people before me who have been called polymaths are people I really look up to. |
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| Fran, ever the polymath, was also cherished for her wry wit. |
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| Micrographia, written by the 17thcentury polymath Robert Hooke, had a huge impact, revealing a new world beyond the imagination of most of its readers. |
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| It is named after William John Macquorn Rankine, a Scottish polymath. |
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