It included few professional astronomers but many physicians, men of letters, diplomats, students, polymaths, and variously educated gentlemen.
We thought him past the best of his powers and knew nothing of his polymath nature.
Readers will finish the book well satisfied, and unless they are real historical polymaths, much better informed than they were before they started.
However, no longer do polymaths write about other polymaths, but specialists about polymaths.
Something of a polymath, he created links across disciplines and advocated the idea that photosynthesis was adopted by bacteria that arose from the sea bed and subsequently colonised the land.
A work like this could not be written, nor reviewed, by a single person as the necessary erudition cannot today be found even in one polymath.
Fuller sees himself as a polymath, talking about a huge range of intellectual and political trends of the twentieth century.
You will find that the eight places have to be filled by polymaths if you are to make it work at all.
