polyhistor
- Noun. someone gifted or learned in multiple disciplines.
- Noun. a universal scientist (generally in use to describe such a person when the term philosophy meant the entire summation of all scientific knowledge; i.e., generally from the ancient Greeks into the eighteenth century.).
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