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

in #history7 years ago

I think someone said that Kepler was the last man to know everything. It may be that we are now redefining the 'everything' that this new man has to know; he must have just sufficient knowledge to assess the contribution of his predecessors