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. |
An autodidact and a polymath, he studied economics, meteorology, history, genetics, and many other subjects. |
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. |
What I didn't know at the time was he was also a polymath, with a wide range of interests and a photographic memory. |
The polymath Anthony Burgess was on hand to supply the English subtitles, preserving the dialogue's alexandrine form. |
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. |