#polymath — Public Fediverse posts
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Building on the Developmental Model of Polymathy (Araki, 2015, 2018, 2020; Araki & Cotellessa, 2020), polymathy is conceived here as a mode of engagement with life (particularly with learning, knowing, and doing) rather than as a status label. It describes a patterned way of engaging with knowledge, understood broadly to include formal and informal learning, autodidactic activity, and meaningful personal experience. This framing emphasizes not only how learning is acquired, but how it is developed, refined, and enacted over time. Polymathy as a life project (Araki, 2018) therefore goes beyond an inventory of competencies or achievements to describe a way of living with and through knowledge.
Proposed definition by Michael Araki (https://www.qeios.com/read/XROC7M) - I know some people that should read it.
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Building on the Developmental Model of Polymathy (Araki, 2015, 2018, 2020; Araki & Cotellessa, 2020), polymathy is conceived here as a mode of engagement with life (particularly with learning, knowing, and doing) rather than as a status label. It describes a patterned way of engaging with knowledge, understood broadly to include formal and informal learning, autodidactic activity, and meaningful personal experience. This framing emphasizes not only how learning is acquired, but how it is developed, refined, and enacted over time. Polymathy as a life project (Araki, 2018) therefore goes beyond an inventory of competencies or achievements to describe a way of living with and through knowledge.
Proposed definition by Michael Araki (https://www.qeios.com/read/XROC7M) - I know some people that should read it.
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Denigrating multiskill people with "jack of all trades and master of none" is a trick of #capitalism to socially push people into specialization, which can be leveraged and taken advantage of easier by the #capitalists.
If they press you, tell them you literally have more skill in more things than most people.
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Denigrating multiskill people with "jack of all trades and master of none" is a trick of #capitalism to socially push people into specialization, which can be leveraged and taken advantage of easier by the #capitalists.
If they press you, tell them you literally have more skill in more things than most people.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@neo_fiction_/116946806030185904
Tja… ich denke #spahn wollte selbst bestimmen, wie er geht! Und bei #polymath könnte ich sogar wetten 😜dass er bald wieder da ist – als #thiel ‘s “baby”
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@neo_fiction_/116946806030185904
Tja… ich denke #spahn wollte selbst bestimmen, wie er geht! Und bei #polymath könnte ich sogar wetten 😜dass er bald wieder da ist – als #thiel ‘s “baby”
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#OnThisDay Birth Anniversary of #German #Polymath Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646). He developed differential and integral calculus independently of Isaac Newton.
Birth Anniversary of Diana, Princess of Wales (1961).
Sony introduced the Walkman (1979).
Happy Birthday Carl Lewis (1961) - one of the greatest Athletes of all time.
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#OnThisDay Birth Anniversary of #German #Polymath Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646). He developed differential and integral calculus independently of Isaac Newton.
Birth Anniversary of Diana, Princess of Wales (1961).
Sony introduced the Walkman (1979).
Happy Birthday Carl Lewis (1961) - one of the greatest Athletes of all time.
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https://medium.com/the-story-well/al-kindi-the-mind-of-a-polymath-e47a82313b8e
Al‑Kindi, The Mind of a Polymath.
How one thinker used math, music, and logic to reshape knowledge.#Al-Kindi #polymath #medium #thinker #philosophy #math #music #optics
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https://medium.com/the-story-well/al-kindi-the-mind-of-a-polymath-e47a82313b8e
Al‑Kindi, The Mind of a Polymath.
How one thinker used math, music, and logic to reshape knowledge.#Al-Kindi #polymath #medium #thinker #philosophy #math #music #optics
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Flat Earthers BTFO since the 3rd century BCE
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/2175788/flat-earthers-btfo-since-the-3rd-century-bce
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Flat Earthers BTFO since the 3rd century BCE
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/2175788/flat-earthers-btfo-since-the-3rd-century-bce
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With an estimated IQ between 250 and 300, William James Sidis could read The New York Times when he was just 18 months old. By the time he was six, he could speak multiple languages, including English, French, German, Russian, Hebrew, and Turkish. At one point, Sidis even invented a brand-new language of his own. He entered Harvard at age 11 and graduated at just 16, at which point many were convinced that Sidis was the smartest person who ever lived, and they were eager to see what he would do next. But despite his unparalleled intelligence, he had no interest in changing the world or staying in the limelight. Instead, Sidis told reporters, "I want to live the perfect life. The only way to live the perfect life is to live it in seclusion." And that's exactly what he did, taking on menial jobs to avoid drawing attention to himself, and ultimately dying penniless and alone.
Go inside the surprising stories of Sidis and 26 other geniuses with the highest IQs in history: https://inter.st/d6y4
#WilliamJamesSidis #Genius #ChildProdigy #HighestIQ #Intelligence #HarvardUniversity #GiftedMind #HistoryOfGeniuses #Prodigy #ExtraordinaryMind #HumanPotential #Polymath #Multilingual #SelfTaught #RareGenius #IQ #BrilliantMinds #Psychology #HiddenGenius #LifeLessons #FamousFigures #Knowledge #Education #LonelyGenius #Seclusion #AcademicHistory #Mindset #Inspiration #UntoldStories #LegendaryMinds
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With an estimated IQ between 250 and 300, William James Sidis could read The New York Times when he was just 18 months old. By the time he was six, he could speak multiple languages, including English, French, German, Russian, Hebrew, and Turkish. At one point, Sidis even invented a brand-new language of his own. He entered Harvard at age 11 and graduated at just 16, at which point many were convinced that Sidis was the smartest person who ever lived, and they were eager to see what he would do next. But despite his unparalleled intelligence, he had no interest in changing the world or staying in the limelight. Instead, Sidis told reporters, "I want to live the perfect life. The only way to live the perfect life is to live it in seclusion." And that's exactly what he did, taking on menial jobs to avoid drawing attention to himself, and ultimately dying penniless and alone.
Go inside the surprising stories of Sidis and 26 other geniuses with the highest IQs in history: https://inter.st/d6y4
#WilliamJamesSidis #Genius #ChildProdigy #HighestIQ #Intelligence #HarvardUniversity #GiftedMind #HistoryOfGeniuses #Prodigy #ExtraordinaryMind #HumanPotential #Polymath #Multilingual #SelfTaught #RareGenius #IQ #BrilliantMinds #Psychology #HiddenGenius #LifeLessons #FamousFigures #Knowledge #Education #LonelyGenius #Seclusion #AcademicHistory #Mindset #Inspiration #UntoldStories #LegendaryMinds
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Talking with #strangers again ... a very friendly #Polymath like myself. Writes short stories, is a street photographer, and composes and performs his own music :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lROYQoqfoE
We were just browsing books in a bookshop here in Cardiff. A deep chat ensued. Just by chance.
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Talking with #strangers again ... a very friendly #Polymath like myself. Writes short stories, is a street photographer, and composes and performs his own music :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lROYQoqfoE
We were just browsing books in a bookshop here in Cardiff. A deep chat ensued. Just by chance.
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“The idea of a universal #education was essential to achieving #polymath ability, hence the word #university was used to describe a seat of #learning.”
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“The idea of a universal #education was essential to achieving #polymath ability, hence the word #university was used to describe a seat of #learning.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymath#Renaissance_man -
Fundamentally a Polymath is someone with 3 or more areas of deep expertise, and an insatiable curiosity. #polymath #generalist #renaissanceperson
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"The Great Comet of 1843," Charles PIazzi Smyth, 1843.
Smyth (1819-1900) is remembered today as a groundbreaking astronomer, but he was also a photographer, traveler, writer, and a pyramidologist. He was the son of an astronomer, his brother was a geologist, another brother was a distinguished Army officer, and a sister was the mother of Sir Robert Baden-Powell, so it was a pretty busy family. Smyth himself married Jessie Duncan, a noted geologist, and they formed quite a team.
This painting was done while he was working at an observatory in South Africa; it clearly shows a certain artistic talent, as well as the influence of the Romantics.
A few years later Smyth would be appointed Astronomer Royal for Scotland, and began to work and teach in Edinburgh.
Despite much excellent work in the field of astronomy, he also studied and wrote about the Pyramid of Giza, and his work there is dismissed as pseudoscience today (because it is). He was also a vocal opponent of the metric system, as he felt it was atheistic and radical.
From the National Maritime Museum, London.
#Art #CharlesPiazziSmyth #Polymath #Romanticism #Astronomy #Pseudoscience #Oddball #BothALegitScientistAndACrank
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"The Great Comet of 1843," Charles PIazzi Smyth, 1843.
Smyth (1819-1900) is remembered today as a groundbreaking astronomer, but he was also a photographer, traveler, writer, and a pyramidologist. He was the son of an astronomer, his brother was a geologist, another brother was a distinguished Army officer, and a sister was the mother of Sir Robert Baden-Powell, so it was a pretty busy family. Smyth himself married Jessie Duncan, a noted geologist, and they formed quite a team.
This painting was done while he was working at an observatory in South Africa; it clearly shows a certain artistic talent, as well as the influence of the Romantics.
A few years later Smyth would be appointed Astronomer Royal for Scotland, and began to work and teach in Edinburgh.
Despite much excellent work in the field of astronomy, he also studied and wrote about the Pyramid of Giza, and his work there is dismissed as pseudoscience today (because it is). He was also a vocal opponent of the metric system, as he felt it was atheistic and radical.
From the National Maritime Museum, London.
#Art #CharlesPiazziSmyth #Polymath #Romanticism #Astronomy #Pseudoscience #Oddball #BothALegitScientistAndACrank
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A lot of people don't know that there are subreddits for polymathic people
https://www.reddit.com/r/ModernPolymath/
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Un Personnage Debout et Nu by Jean Cocteau, 1958 (pastel on paper)
#jeancocteau #drawing #polymath #art #arthistory #avantgarde -
Un Personnage Debout et Nu by Jean Cocteau, 1958 (pastel on paper)
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Want to unlock your inner genius? This series on Polymaths explore a non-zero-sum approach to innovation. The third and final part dropped today! #Polymath #Genius #Descartes #Newton #Musk #CrossPollination #TransferableSkills #Fails #Success #Obsidian
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#OnThisDay Birth Anniversary of Benjamin Franklin (1706) - American #Polymath and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
Birth Anniversary of Muhammad Ali (1942) - regarded as one of the most significant and celebrated sports figures of the 20th century and one of the greatest #Boxers of all time.
British polar explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott reached the #SouthPole, one month after Roald Amundsen (1912)
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#OnThisDay Birth Anniversary of Benjamin Franklin (1706) - American #Polymath and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
Birth Anniversary of Muhammad Ali (1942) - regarded as one of the most significant and celebrated sports figures of the 20th century and one of the greatest #Boxers of all time.
British polar explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott reached the #SouthPole, one month after Roald Amundsen (1912)
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Another of scientists without a known birthday: my #linocut of ancient Chinese Han Dynasty #polymath & statesman Zhang Heng (78-139) who invented a seismoscope (simplified seismometer which does not make a record of earth motions) to detect distant earthquakes & indicate their direction, 2000 years ago! Here with a reconstruction of his seismoscope, schematic of how it might have worked & 🧵
https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/1383517882
#histsci #printmaking #ZhangHeng #EarthScience #seismology #mastoArt
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Another of scientists without a known birthday: my #linocut of ancient Chinese Han Dynasty #polymath & statesman Zhang Heng (78-139) who invented a seismoscope (simplified seismometer which does not make a record of earth motions) to detect distant earthquakes & indicate their direction, 2000 years ago! Here with a reconstruction of his seismoscope, schematic of how it might have worked & 🧵
https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/1383517882
#histsci #printmaking #ZhangHeng #EarthScience #seismology #mastoArt
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Happy belated birthday to #mathematician & #polymath, Mary Fairfax Somerville (26/12/1780-1872). As a young widow she made a name for herself when she won a silver medal in 1811 from Military College at Marlow math journal. Wallace suggested she read Laplace & finding she understood it as well as her tutor her confidence increased, & she expanded her studies to #astronomy, chemistry, #geography, microscopy, electricity & magnetism. 🧵
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Happy belated birthday to #mathematician & #polymath, Mary Fairfax Somerville (26/12/1780-1872). As a young widow she made a name for herself when she won a silver medal in 1811 from Military College at Marlow math journal. Wallace suggested she read Laplace & finding she understood it as well as her tutor her confidence increased, & she expanded her studies to #astronomy, chemistry, #geography, microscopy, electricity & magnetism. 🧵
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Went to hear Elephant Sessions at the Usher Hall #Edinburgh, somewhat randomly, and came away looking up
➡️ www.belugalagoon.comSolo band, great following who knew the words, and danced. Andrew O'Donnell, owned the space.
And nature documentary series on the BBC, it seems.
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#RufusPTurner was a #polymath and a frigging #genius at a time #whitefolks were #lynching people like him--us.
"At age 17 he wrote the first of his nearly 3,000 articles, mostly having to do with radio electronics"
"With 40 books on #radio #electronics to his credit[...]Turner, who also wrote #books on #technicalwriting"
You'd think that he'd get his due in the #engineering community. If anyone is aware of a #autobiography or #biography post it now!
https://blackpast.org/african-american-history/turner-rufus-p-1907-1982/ #BlackMastodon -
#RufusPTurner was a #polymath and a frigging #genius at a time #whitefolks were #lynching people like him--us.
"At age 17 he wrote the first of his nearly 3,000 articles, mostly having to do with radio electronics"
"With 40 books on #radio #electronics to his credit[...]Turner, who also wrote #books on #technicalwriting"
You'd think that he'd get his due in the #engineering community. If anyone is aware of a #autobiography or #biography post it now!
https://blackpast.org/african-american-history/turner-rufus-p-1907-1982/ #BlackMastodon -
As the parent of an autistic now-adult, SOOO much of the therapy we had him wasn’t actually about him at all, but helping us understand how to speak his language and manage expectations.
Responsibilities exist, and we all have things to do in this world - that’s a truth. But it’s OK to ask questions when something isn’t understood, and it’s OK to acknowledge that sometimes additional support is needed for specific things. That doesn’t make anyone less of a human being, and anyone that believes so isn’t a person worth keeping in a circle.
We also have 2 nautistic (but still neurospicey) almost-adults. One of the most challenging things as they are all growing up was mediating the fact that yes, sometimes expectations are different, and yes , sometimes abilities are different - and that’s OK. We can’t all be good at everything, and skill at things isn’t a measure of our value as human beings. So many arguments and so much tension over the years eased when we all started understanding that better.
So, all that to say - it sounds like your path is moving forward, and I’m happy for you that it is. Try not to get hung up on the past, because what was is not always what will be (sucks, I know), and keep being a courageous human. And welcome (maybe) to the #polymath show.
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As the parent of an autistic now-adult, SOOO much of the therapy we had him wasn’t actually about him at all, but helping us understand how to speak his language and manage expectations.
Responsibilities exist, and we all have things to do in this world - that’s a truth. But it’s OK to ask questions when something isn’t understood, and it’s OK to acknowledge that sometimes additional support is needed for specific things. That doesn’t make anyone less of a human being, and anyone that believes so isn’t a person worth keeping in a circle.
We also have 2 nautistic (but still neurospicey) almost-adults. One of the most challenging things as they are all growing up was mediating the fact that yes, sometimes expectations are different, and yes , sometimes abilities are different - and that’s OK. We can’t all be good at everything, and skill at things isn’t a measure of our value as human beings. So many arguments and so much tension over the years eased when we all started understanding that better.
So, all that to say - it sounds like your path is moving forward, and I’m happy for you that it is. Try not to get hung up on the past, because what was is not always what will be (sucks, I know), and keep being a courageous human. And welcome (maybe) to the #polymath show.
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The Last Man Who Knew Everything
Thomas Young, the Anonymous Polymath Who Proved Newton Wrong, Explained How We See, Cured the Sick, and Deciphered the Rosetta Stone, Among Other Feats of Genius (Revised Edition) by Andrew Robinson, 2023
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The Last Man Who Knew Everything
Thomas Young, the Anonymous Polymath Who Proved Newton Wrong, Explained How We See, Cured the Sick, and Deciphered the Rosetta Stone, Among Other Feats of Genius (Revised Edition) by Andrew Robinson, 2023
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It's a project account as simple as an account which only talks an Open Source project that you are doing?
^Z
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It's a project account as simple as an account which only talks an Open Source project that you are doing?
^Z
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Better Company Than Caesar
What is this urge that makes us want to be seen as something we aren’t. Take this blog, for example. I am in no way a writer. Barely even a proper blogger. My professional life has very little of this kind of writing. Scientific and investor communication, sure; but not this. Why do I have — and always have had — this urge to be, and be seen, as creative? Is this some kind of performative, effortless polymathism?
Orangutan (Orangoetan) (1914) print in high resolution by Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita.Perhaps the desire is to be a modern Renaissance man. In of Montaigne’s essays is the following passage:
“They would rather talk at length about other people’s trade, instead of their own, and so hope to be seen as accomplished in yet another field. Like when Archidamus faulted Periander for abandoning his reputation as a good doctor to acquire one as a bad poet.
See how Caesar goes out of his way to make us understand his ingenuity in building bridges and siege weapons. And, conversely, how much he refrains from talking about the responsibilities of his profession, his courage, and how he led his troops. His deeds prove he was an excellent officer. He wants to be known as an excellent engineer, an entirely different occupation!
Dionysus the Elder was a great military leader, as fortune would have him. But he did everything he could to be known mainly through poetry, although he knew little of it.”
Montaigne, if not a “Renaissance man”, is a man of the Renaissance. Yet he quotes even older examples of this urge. We have leaders who are CEOs or investors and want to be known or seen as being accomplished engineers or physicists. Fields they are rather bad at. Perhaps there is a common kind of mania here. Maybe it takes hold in the minds of the mover and shakers of history. But what of us not of a geologic character?
I don’t think this applies to us regular folks. Hobbies and deep interests do provide something critical however. Happiness. I don’t really care much about being seen as an expert in writing, making pretty plots, or even performing some AI-for-biology contortion. I would like to know how to do it and how to do it well. I am led by the pleasures of intense curiosity. That is better company than Caesar, I assure you.
Maria Popova writes in one of her wonderful essays on Bertrand Russell:
‘In my darkest hours, what has saved me again and again is some action of unselfing — some instinctive wakefulness to an aspect of the world other than myself: a helping hand extended to someone else’s struggle, the dazzling galaxy just discovered millions of lightyears away, the cardinal trembling in the tree outside my window. We know this by its mirror-image — to contact happiness of any kind is “to be dissolved into something complete and great,” something beyond the bruising boundaries of the ego.’
By the end of 2023, I was in proper burnout.*1 It wasn’t until I was able to focus my mind on reading new things that recovery felt possible. Earlier this year I joined the Contraptions book club and that complete focusing of attention has buoyed my mental state even higher. Enough to write regularly and to be ever more creative at my day job.
So, I guess, the Nobel-winning philosopher and mathematician did know a thing or two when he decided to write a book with the title in The Conquest of Happiness.
“The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.”- Sidenote: I suspect Montaigne, who was about my age when he started to write also went through a midlife crisis. This sidenote is somewhere between projection and basking in reflected glory. ↩︎
#bertrandRussell #burnout #Creativity #curiosity #Happiness #history #hobbies #impostorSyndrome #mariaPopova #montaigne #personalGrowth #philosophy #polymath #renaissance #theConquestOfHappiness #writingLife
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#OnThisDay Birth Anniversary of #German #Polymath Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646). He developed differential and integral calculus independently of Isaac Newton.
Birth Anniversary of Diana, Princess of Wales (1961).
Sony introduced the Walkman (1979).
Happy Birthday Carl Lewis (1961) - one of the greatest Athletes of all time.
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#OnThisDay Birth Anniversary of #German #Polymath Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646). He developed differential and integral calculus independently of Isaac Newton.
Birth Anniversary of Diana, Princess of Wales (1961).
Sony introduced the Walkman (1979).
Happy Birthday Carl Lewis (1961) - one of the greatest Athletes of all time.
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Varro Varius by D.J. Butterfield, 2020
Rome produced no man more erudite, eclectic, and energetic than Marcus Terentius Varro (116-24 BC). Over a long and busy life, set against the backdrop of near-constant social and political upheaval, Varro studied and codified almost every conceivable topic for intellectual enquiry.
@bookstodon
#books
#nonfiction
#biography
#AncientRome
#polymath
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Varro Varius by D.J. Butterfield, 2020
Rome produced no man more erudite, eclectic, and energetic than Marcus Terentius Varro (116-24 BC). Over a long and busy life, set against the backdrop of near-constant social and political upheaval, Varro studied and codified almost every conceivable topic for intellectual enquiry.
@bookstodon
#books
#nonfiction
#biography
#AncientRome
#polymath
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@tripplehelix @orbitalmartian @alatartheblue @kudzu @dmoonfire @thedoctor @krafter @clayton @roguefoam @fbievan @joel @dm @sotolf @btp @adamsdesk @jlw_the_jobber @gorkmo @amin
You can't be jump-scared by it anymore, you're a #polymath now.
It should be more like a steady tone. 😂
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@tripplehelix @orbitalmartian @alatartheblue @kudzu @dmoonfire @thedoctor @krafter @clayton @roguefoam @fbievan @joel @dm @sotolf @btp @adamsdesk @jlw_the_jobber @gorkmo @amin
You can't be jump-scared by it anymore, you're a #polymath now.
It should be more like a steady tone. 😂
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#OnThisDay Birth Anniversary of Italian #Polymath Galileo Galilei (1564) - known as the "father of observational astronomy", the "father of modern physics", the "father of the scientific method".
Philosopher #Socrates was sentenced to death by the city of Athens (399BC).
The first draft of the complete human #Genome was published in Nature (2001)
