The book both disappointed and positively surprised me in certain regards - but I will certainly be coming back to it sometime in the future, perhaps less bewildered by the amount of names and so with a different tint to my glasses. Grayling's positive evaluation of it on the back cover. The shallow treatment of some personalities has to have been I picked up this book while perusing the shelves of a store, so I hadn't heard much about it before picking it up. I picked up this book while perusing the shelves of a store, so I hadn't heard much about it before picking it up.
Spanning the Renaissance to the present day, Burke changes our understanding of this remarkable intellectual species.more 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. 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. In this engaging, erudite account, renowned cultural historian Peter Burke argues for a more rounded view. All too often these individuals are remembered for just one part of their valuable achievements. But history can be unkind to scholars with such encyclopaedic interests.
All too often these individuals are remembere The first history of the western polymath, from the fifteenth century to the present dayįrom 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. The first history of the western polymath, from the fifteenth century to the present day 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.
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