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Archimedes, Da Vinci, I. Newton are just a few that came to mind.

• e12e 11y ago
  Tesla?
• celticninja 11y ago
  anyone more recent? You see it seems to be that it was a lot easier to know a lot when there was a lot less to know. Now people tend to specialise in one field and know a lot about that field as opposed to knowing quite a bit about a multitude of fields.
  • atmosx 11y ago
    You're right. I guess there are polymaths at this age and time, we just don't know about them. Maybe as you imply, it's impossible nowadays to stand out of the crowd the way Newton, Archimedes, Gauss, Tesla (as another commentator pointed out) did in the past.
• saganus 11y ago
  That's why I said modern polymaths. Most people always think of the usual guys when talking about polymaths, and it seems like modern ones are never mentioned.