Fun fact: he coined it as a term to refer to Mary Somerville, because the term for such a person up until that point was "man of science". He invented it when he reviewed her treatise On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences, in 1834.
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Less fun fact - that isn't actually true. It was first used in print in that review, but was not referring to her. Whewell coined the term a couple of years earlier. Here's the text:pic.twitter.com/qHPQL2C8oX
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Polymath - A person of wide knowledge or learning.
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more fun ... whewell was 2nd wrangler in 1816, made many divers contributions, his here just one examplepic.twitter.com/VxprYWs9Xc
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Do you have a reference for that?
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I want to know which power mad botanical tyrant was the first one to decide that most of the commonly consumed nuts are not actually nuts.
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It makes no sense. These nutty things that we eat are the reason the word "nut" exists in the first place. Why are you now saying they are not nuts?
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