polymath in a sentence
pronunciation: [ [ 'pɔlimæθ ] ]
Examples
- A biographer, Carmen Acevedo Butcher, described Hildegard of Bingen as a polymath.
- He sustained the contacts with polyglot and polymath circles and the interest in Restoration.
- A great humanist, freedom fighter, polymath, encyclopedic thinker and socialist educationist.
- Galton was a polymath and the president of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain.
- Another correspondent was the fellow polymath Lucien Bonaparte.
- We can't all be polymaths.
- The polymath Alexander von Humboldt studied mining at the Bergakademie Freiberg in 1791 / 1792.
- The genus was named for polymath Constantine Samuel Rafinesque by botanist Thomas Nuttall in 1841.
- He wrote mathematics books and edited works of mathematician John Playfair and polymath Thomas Young.
- Hutchinson was a polymath whose interests ranged from politics to the preservation of telephone poles.