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02158aam a2200313Ii 4500 001 0E56DE5EF8AB11EA88090C2751ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20200917010014 008 191006t20202020ctuaf b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 9780300250022 020 $a 0300250029 035 $a (OCoLC)1121610476 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d UKMGB $d OCLCO $d ERASA $d OCLCF $d YDXIT $d GZN $d IOU $d SILO 050 4 $a HM728 $b .B87 2020 082 04 $a 305.5/520922 $2 23 100 1 $a Burke, Peter, $d 1937- $e author. 245 14 $a The polymath : $b a cultural history from Leonardo Da Vinci to Susan Sontag / $c Peter Burke. 264 1 $a New Haven : $b Yale University Press, $c [2020] 300 $a xi, 327 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations (some color) ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 8 $a From Leonardo Da Vinci to John Dee and Comenius, from George Eliot to Oliver Sacks and Susan Sontag, polymaths have moved the frontiers of knowledge in countless ways. But history can be unkind to scholars with such encyclopaedic interests. All too often these individuals are remembered for just one part of their valuable achievements. In this account, renowned cultural historian Peter Burke argues for a more rounded view. Identifying 500 western polymaths, Burke explores their wide-ranging successes and shows how their rise matched a rapid growth of knowledge in the age of the invention of printing, the discovery of the New World and the Scientific Revolution. It is only more recently that the further acceleration of knowledge has led to increased specialisation and to an environment that is less supportive of wide-ranging scholars and scientists. Spanning the Renaissance to the present day, Burke changes our understanding of this remarkable intellectual species. 650 0 $a Intellectuals $x History. 650 0 $a Learning and scholarship $x History. 650 0 $a Knowledge, Theory of $x History. 941 $a 2 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20211019011214.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20200917010039.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=0E56DE5EF8AB11EA88090C2751ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search