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RE: Who Was the Last Know-It-All? Considering Kircher, Goethe, Humboldt, and Young

in #history7 years ago

All of those people were very smart and versatile at the times they lived. But I'm not convinced Leibniz was any better than the ones I covered; those others lived earlier. Young definitely was a phenom. Does that make him a complete polymath? Perhaps.