The 18th century author of the first modern encyclopedia,
Ephraim Chambers, thought that polymathy itself “sought the connections between
subjects,” writing, “Where numbers of things are thrown precariously together,
we sometimes discover relations among them, which we should never have thought
of looking for.”
That is the essence of
the value of polymathy. The polymath can make these connections and discover
the relationships between completely different ideas and concepts not by
reading about them, but because they are thrown precariously together in his or
her mind.
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