‘Writing in The New York Times Book Review, Judith Shulevitz gushed, ‘Novelists, in short, have become our public intellectuals - our polymaths, our geographers, our scholars of the material world.’’.‘In high school, I studied American history with a nineteenth-century-style polymath who assigned us readings from Richard Hofstadter.’.‘This mystical attraction to words would lead him not only to become a linguistic polymath, but to invent his own private language, with its own alphabet, which he used in writing his diary.’.‘This, Zimmer claims, was the achievement of the group of virtuosi - highly talented polymaths more or less trapped in Oxford during the civil war and the Cromwellian republic of the mid-17th century.’.‘In an age of polymaths who mastered all the disciplines, knew many languages, and wrote more than any modern can read, chronology, with its varied contents and technical difficulties, seemed the essence of scholarship.’.‘What I didn't know at the time was he was also a polymath, with a wide range of interests and a photographic memory.’.‘James Lighthill was indeed a brilliant scientist but he was also a polymath, with knowledge, insight and enthusiasm for the arts and humanities.’.
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