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What is a polymath?

What is a polymath? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A person with extraordinarily broad and comprehensive knowledge.
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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.
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.

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