1) polymath. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth
Edition. 2000. ...A person of great or varied learning. Greek polumaths : polu-, poly- + manthanein, math-, to learn; see mendh- in Appendix I.poly·math, poly·mathic -ADJECTIVEpo·lyma·thy... 2) 18840. Eliot, T.S. (Thomas Stearns). The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996 ...NUMBER:18840 QUOTATION:The masters of the subtle schoolsAre controversial, polymath. ATTRIBUTION:T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot (1888-1965), U.S.-born-British poet,... 3) 33067. Kraus, Karl. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996 ...NUMBER:33067 QUOTATION:I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up. ATTRIBUTION:Karl Kraus (1874-1936), Austrian writer.... 4) Peirce, Charles Sanders. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 ...Peirce, Charles Sanders, (purs) (KEY) , 1839-1914, American philosopher and polymath, b. Cambridge, Mass., grad. Harvard, 1859; son of Benjamin Peirce. Except for... 5) Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Service. Eliot, T. S. 1920. Poems ...Stirring the water in his bath. 30 The masters of the subtle schools Are controversial, polymath.... 6) f. North Africa. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History ...primarily in the northeast. 5 981 Death of Ibn al-Tabban (b. 923), a renowned scholar and polymath. Among the fields treated in his writings were Islamic law, philology,... 7) 1478. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History ...Masaccio (1401-28?), Botticelli (1444-1510), Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), sculptor and polymath; (2) architecture: Brunelleschi (1377-1446); Alberti (1405-71);... 8) 3. Civil War and Renewal, 70 B.C.E.-14 C.E. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World
History ...history (lost). Latin biography was composed by Cornelius Nepos (c. 99- c. 24), while the polymath M. Terentius Varro (116-27) wrote on a wide variety of subjects,... 9) b. Political, Social, and Cultural Patterns. 2001. The Encyclopedia of
World History ...as lixue, or the learning of principle) was the work of ZHU XI (1130-1200). Zhu was a great polymath who wrote on education, philosophy, the family, and the state,... |