Jean-Martin Charcot: the polymath by Carlos Henrique Ferreira Camargo, Léo Coutinho, Ylmar Correa Neto, Eliasz Engelhardt, Pericles Maranhão Filho, Olivier Walusinski, Hélio Afonso Ghizoni Teive

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William John Burchell: The multi-skilled polymath by Roger Stewart, Brian Warner

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Olabiyi Babalola J. Yai (1939-2020): Philosopher, Polymath, Humanist by Sanya Osha

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Carolina Coronado en su biografía. La construcción de una imagen: mecenazgo masculino y apuntes biográficos by Estefanía Cabello

“…In the first edition of Carolina Coronado’s Poesías (1843), the philologist and polymath Juan Eugenio Hartzenbusch creates a prologue that introduces and is attached to the literary work of the extremenian author, granting her a voice and confirming the author as a relevant writer of the time. …”
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A kinetic study of benzyl alcohol oxidation over Pt/C catalyst

“…The oxidation data was analyzed using the nonlinear regression method using Polymath 5.1 software to analyze reaction kinetics. …”
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Juraj Križanić, His Treatise De Musica (1663-1666) and His Remarks on Performing Practices by Stanislav Tuksar

“…The Croatian polymath Juraj Križanić (Georgius Crisanius, 1617?-1683) travelled extensively through Croatia, Austria, Italy, Poland-Lithuania, Turkey, and Russia, spending the years 1661-1676 in exile in Tobolsk, Siberia. …”
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Baccio del Bianco and the artistic fortuna of Galileo’s Il Saggiatore by Eva Struhal

“…I focus on the Florentine polymath Baccio del Bianco (1604-1657), an artist, engineer, architect, and caricaturist, whose interaction with Galileo was documented by the Florentine biographer Baldinucci. …”
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Truman Capote as a Poet by James B. Young

“…He is often described as a notable novelist, but was more generally a polymath dabbling in non-fiction between his parties. …”
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The Fabric of the Skies: Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora and the Academia Mexicana by Nydia Pineda de Ávila

“…This Mexican-born author, known to Latin American scholars as a baroque polymath and prominent actor in the development of criollo identity, has been historically considered a defender of mathematical reasoning and a representative of a shift to modernity in New Spain. …”
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Francis Darwin (1848–1925): the biologist in the shadow of father Charles by Ulrich Kutschera, František Baluška

“…Finally, we document that the Biologist Francis Darwin was also a musician and polymath, with broad expertise in the natural sciences and the humanities alike.…”
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Mixtec social memory in Late Renaissance Rome: Ulisse Aldrovandi, Tommaso de’ Cavalieri, and “the skull of an Indian king” by Davide Domenici

“…The article discusses the contents of a series of post-1577 manuscripts in which the Bolognese polymath Ulisse Aldrovandi described the collection of naturalia and artificialia held in Rome by Tommaso de’ Cavalieri. …”
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Improving interactive reinforcement learning: What makes a good teacher? by Francisco Cruz, Sven Magg, Yukie Nagai, Stefan Wermter

“…In this work, we analyse internal representations and characteristics of artificial agents to determine which agent may outperform others to become a better trainer-agent. Using a polymath agent, as compared to a specialist agent, an advisor leads to a larger reward and faster convergence of the reward signal and also to a more stable behaviour in terms of the state visit frequency of the learner-agents. …”
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De l’indigénisation soviétique au panturquisme académique by Marc Toutant

“…In Turkey too, nationalistic interests incited scholars to regard the Timurid polymath as a “Turkish poet” and a spearhead of Turkishness. …”
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Destroying Vision, Destroying Hearing: Sergei Kuriokhin and Arkady Dragomoshchenko by Evgeny Pavlov

“…Dragomoshchenko, a seminal poet, defied categorization, while Kuriokhin, a polymath, challenged conventions across music, performance, and politics. …”
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Ayatollah Javadi Amoli on Theoretical Mysticism by Mahdi Sadafi

“…Ayatollah Javadi Amoli, following his polymath professor, Allameh Tabatabai, and Mulla Sadra’s transcendental Wisdom, by means of an analysis of the relational existence of effect in respect to its cause, establishes the foundations of the mystical unity of existence. …”
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Formation and Dispersion of a Personal Library in the 18th Century: The Case of Mehmed Ismet Efendi’s Library by İsa Uğurlu

“…The present article examines the strategies this polymath adopted during his library formation. It is argued that thanks to the wealth he possessed, he expanded the manuscript collection inherited from his father until his death. …”
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Sorrow for books: What did the compilers of 16th-century autobibliographies worry about? by M. L. Sergeev

“…In this article, two examples of such texts are analyzed — namely, the autobibliographies by the Swiss polymath Conrad Gessner and by the English clergyman and historian John Bale. …”
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Other-Emptiness in the Work of an Unknown Mystic Illuminating the Path to Freedom by Jamyang Sarma Sherab Özer by Georgios Halkias, Tsering Drukgyel

“…In this article, we investigate the previously unstudied life and works of the late-12th/early-13th century Tibetan polymath Jamyang Sarma Sherab Özer (‘Jam dbyang gsar ma shes rab ‘od zer), an important Buddhist master in the Dro lineage of the Kālacakra Tantra. …”
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Context-Sensitive Terms In Islamic Philosophy of Language: A Study On The Logicalization of Demonstrative Pronoun by Harun Kuşlu

“…The operant traces of the debate can palpably be traced up to the late Ottoman polymath Ismail Gelenbevī (d. 1205/1791) and his commentators. …”
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Playing the Fool: The Subversive Literary Apologetics of John Bunyan and Blaise Pascal by David Parry

“…John Bunyan and Blaise Pascal seem unlikely bedfellows – a fiercely Protestant English artisan with only vernacular literacy and a devoutly Catholic French polymath. Yet there are striking affinities between the two in their theologies, spiritual experience, and apologetic methodologies. …”
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