An endangered species: the polymath in an age of specialisation
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A lecture by Peter Burke (Cambridge).
A cultural history of polymaths from the Renaissance to the present (from Leonardo to Umberto Eco), investigating how the species has managed to survive despite increasing specialization
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A cultural history of polymaths from the Renaissance to the present (from Leonardo to Umberto Eco), investigating how the species has managed to survive despite increasing specialization
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