Word: polymath
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...often seem affected when people prominent in other fields decide to take up painting. But in the case of Japanese polymath "Beat" Takeshi Kitano, it's just one more expression of the 63-year-old's restless intelligence - alongside his work as a comedian, filmmaker, actor, TV presenter and poet...
Ricci, an Italian polymath, was perhaps the most talented of an extraordinary collection of Jesuits who went to China in the 16th and 17th centuries, taking Western learning with them. It was not a one-way exchange: Ming China was no slouch when it came to science and technology, and China's cartographic tradition was long and rich. Ricci's map is thought to be the first Chinese representation of the world as a sphere. But the map is at its most detailed in its depiction of China itself, an indication, as Professor Cordell Yee of St. John's College...