Polymath

The aim of the following chapter is to present nature in Thomas Hardy’s Return of the Native and Jude the Obscure as a driving force from which human beings are dependent. The focus will be also put on the intellectual ferment caused by the discoveries of that time which place human beings at the same level as animals and question the immortality of soul. The protagonists will be presented as individuals struggling for existence in a harsh world governed by passion and chance. In the course of…

engineering, painting, sculpting, architecture, literature, anatomy and many other scientific subjects. Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci added his ingenious mind to such an abundant amount of subjects during his study of them that he epitomized the term Polymath. Leonardo da Vinci was born in Vinci, Italy 1465 yet his intellect was beyond the time he was born in. He was a scientist, inventor, engineer and most notably known as an artist. Though people believe he should be known as a scientist…

Leonardo da Vinci was a painter, sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer. Leonardo was the polymath of his time and is well known internationally. The biography I read was titled Leonardo da Vinci and was written by Sherwin B. Nuland. Sherwin B. Nuland is a surgeon, writer, educator at Yale, and a Leonardo da Vinci enthusiast. Nuland spent twenty years on a quest to unearth the life of Leonardo da Vinci. During…

was a Dutch Mathematician and Scientist in the late 17th century. It becomes difficult at this stage to be any more specific than that, as his achievements are in fields so varied and so far-reaching that the only description of him that fits is ‘polymath’. Indeed, we are only learning of some achievements today, as his reticence to publish many of his works kept many of them from seeing the light of day for quite some time (Igorevich). He was born in the cold April of 1626 in The Hague, located…

Spiritual Exercises to better their pursuits of ministry ad education in the world. Developed through the interiority of self-reflexivity, individualism combines with the plurality of the Ignatian focus on the study of the humanities. Known as a polymath, Lonergan perfectly exemplifies this plurality of study in his academic pursuits, ranging from art and music, to science and math, to language, philosophy, and religion. In turn, the self-reflexivity, individuality, and plurality manifested…

Archimedes was a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, engineer and inventor. Archimedes was the first big mathematician, as well as consider the best mathematician of that era. Archimedes was born in the Greek city-state of Syracuse. His father, Phidias, was an astronomer. The fact that his father was an astronomer made him motivated to do all the inventions he did. He was really close to King Hieron and his son, Gelon. He worked for them, when he lived in Alexandria. He invented the sciences…

The opposing views of “nature versus nurture” have evoked an abundance of disagreements ever since the early years. Both sides of the debate theorize that every individual has different personalities. The “nature” aspect argues that our genes influence our character, while the “nurture” aspect argues that our environments influence our character. This controversial issue in psychology has convincing ideas from both perspectives, which is why it is still a widely talked issue by social scientists…

Tell us about your most meaningful community service experience. (not related to patient care if none, please write none) Using my strengths to help my community, I volunteered to tutor students preparing to take their General Education Degree Exam. On the first day, I was greeted by a friendly receptionist and introduced to my only coworker, who was trying to teach over 20 students. Shocked by the lack of tutors, I wanted to help as many students as possible, so I knew I would need to take a…

to emotional functioning as well as to detect issues in thought processing. Although Rorschach was the first to attach a system analysis to inkblot interpretation, the idea of using “ambiguous design” to assess personality is first referenced by polymaths such as Leonardo da Vinci and Botticelli. Many have proposed that Rorschach was inspired by the…

Citizen Kane is perhaps known around the world (and especially in the United States) as one the greatest American films ever made, and created by one of America’s greatest film directors that ever lived, his bold style and unconventional techniques made him a maverick, a genius, and rebel in the entertainment industry, and like the character portrayed in the film, director Orson Welles also had his rise and fall to fame. The film begins among the desolate landscape and remains of Xanadu…