List of polymaths: Encyclopedia II - List of polymaths - Enlightenment and early post-Enlightenment

List of polymaths - Enlightenment and early post-Enlightenment

List of polymaths - A to J

• Jeremy Bentham, jurist, inventor, philosopher, mathematician, economist, and political commentator
• William Blake, poet, painter, engraver, visionary mystic
• Alexander Borodin, composer and chemist
• Rudjer Boscovich, physicist, astronomer, mathematician, philosopher, diplomat, and poet
• Sir Richard Francis Burton, explorer, linguist, anthropologist, diplomat and swordsman
• Sir George Cayley, naturalist, physical scientist, engineer, inventor and politician
• Émilie du Châtelet, physicist, mathematician, author, translator, singer
• Temple Chevallier, astronomy, meteorology, math, translation, theology
• Erasmus Darwin, physician, inventor, botanist, and poet
• René Descartes, math, neuroscience, and philosophy
• Liu E, writer, musician, physician and entrepreneur
• Thomas Alva Edison, inventor, entrepreneur, publisher (co-founded Science; phonograph and motion pictures).
• Leonhard Euler, mathematician, physicist, economist, music theory
• Benjamin Franklin, politician, physicist, entrepreneur, printer, inventor, diplomat and writer.
• Julian Fontana, pianist, lawyer, author, and entrepreneur
• Carl Friedrich Gauss, mathematician, astronomer, physicist, author,polyglot
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, novelist, poet, philosopher, scientist
• Jacob Grimm, linguist, folklorist, lawyer, antiquarian, dictionary compiler, and librarian
• Bartolomeu de Gusmão, philologist, inventor, naturalist
• G. W. F. Hegel, philosopher, historian, art theorist, theologian, jurist
• Thomas Hobbes, political theorist, historian, optical scientist, translator, classicist
• Robert Hooke, experimental scientist, natural philosopher, biologist, physicist, architect, inventor
• James Hutton, physician, chemist, physicist, botanist, philosopher, linguist, geologist, farmer
• Christiaan Huygens, natural philosopher, horologist, astronomer, mathematician, inventor
• Sor Juana, poet, composer, classical scholar
• Thomas Jefferson, politician, architect, cryptographer, agriculture, archaeologist and writer.

List of polymaths - K to S

• Alexandre Kojeve, philosopher, jurist, politician, intellectual historian, polyglot
• Samuel Pierpont Langley, astronomer, physicist, inventor, aviator
• Gottfried Leibniz, philosopher, mathematician, logician, scientist, engineer, historian, lawyer, diplomat, librarian, philologist, theologian, poet
• Mikhail Lomonosov, literature, education, and science
• John Stuart Mill, philosopher, political writer, economist
• Sir Samuel Morland, mathematician, Latin, diplomat, spy, inventor
• Paul Morphy, lawyer, chess player, philosopher, author
• Samuel Morse, artist, politician, inventor, educator, cryptographer
• John Muir, environmentalist, inventor, engineer, and geologist.
• Isaac Newton, mathematician, physicist, alchemist, theologian, economist, historian, inventor
• Florence Nightingale, statistics, nursing, and writing
• Blaise Pascal, mathematician, physicist, theologian, philosopher (logic, probability, and ethics)
• Charles Willson Peale, artist, naturalist, inventor, author
• Charles Peirce, philosopher, logician, mathematician, semiotician, geodesist,
• François-André Danican Philidor, composer, chess and draughts player, author
• Rufus Porter, painter, inventor, editor
• Adolphe Quetelet, astronomer, mathematician, sociologist
• Constantine Samuel Rafinesque-Schmaltz, botany, biology, languages
• José Rizal, artist, educator, linguist, naturalist, physician, social scientist
• Salvator Rosa, painter, poet, philosopher
• Adam Smith, jurist, (founding) economist, psychologist, historian, theologian, literary critic
• Stanisław Staszic, philosopher, statesman, geologist, poet, priest, and writer
• Howard Staunton, chess writer and world chess champion, actor, Shakespearean scholar, educationalist
• Rudolf Steiner, philosopher, literary scholar, architect, playwright, educator, social thinker, mystic
• Emanuel Swedenborg, anatomist, astronomer, inventor, mystic.
• Jan Śniadecki, mathematician, philosopher, astronomer, educator.
• Jędrzej Śniadecki, writer, physician, chemist, biologist.

List of polymaths - T to Z

• Nikola Tesla, inventor, poet, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, physicist
• James John Garth Wilkinson, poet, philologist, doctor, philosopher
• Thomas Young, prodigy, physicist, physician, linguist, egyptologist
• William Whewell, philosopher, theologian, historian, scientist
• Christopher Wren, architect, astronomer and mathematician

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