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    Polymaths Personalities

    What is the personality type of Polymaths? Which MBTI personality type best fits? Personality type for Polymaths from Polymaths and what is the personality traits.

    A polymath (Greek: πολυμαθής, polymathēs, "having learned much"; Latin: homo universalis, "universal man") is a person whose expertise spans a significant number of subject areas, known to draw on complex bodies of knowledge to solve specific problems. Polymaths include the great thinkers of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment who excelled at several fields including science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. In the Italian Renaissance, the idea of the polymath was expressed by Leon Battista Alberti (1404–1472) in the statement that "a man can do all things if he will". The term entered the lexicon in the 20th century and has now been applied to great thinkers living before and after the Renaissance. 

    Profiles

    Galileo Galilei
    Galileo Galilei

    INTP

    Francis Galton
    Francis Galton

    INTJ

    Eratosthenes
    Eratosthenes

    ENTP

    Alexander von Humboldt
    Alexander von Humboldt

    INTJ

    Richard Francis Burton
    Richard Francis Burton

    ISTP

    Mikhail Lomonosov
    Mikhail Lomonosov

    INTP

    Thomas Young
    Thomas Young

    INFJ

    Avempace
    Avempace

    ENTP

    John Harvey Kellogg
    John Harvey Kellogg

    ESTJ

    Zhang Heng
    Zhang Heng

    ENTP

    Pierre Beaumarchais
    Pierre Beaumarchais

    ENTP

    Mary Somerville
    Mary Somerville

    INTJ

    Taqi Ad-Din Muhammad b. Maruf
    Taqi Ad-Din Muhammad b. Maruf

    INTP

    Ramon Llull
    Ramon Llull

    INFJ

    Nicolae Iorga
    Nicolae Iorga

    INTP

    Roger Joseph Boscovich
    Roger Joseph Boscovich

    ENTJ

    Marin Mersenne
    Marin Mersenne

    ENTP

    Mario J. Lucero
    Mario J. Lucero

    INFP

    Joseph W Norman
    Joseph W Norman

    ISTP

    Shen Kuo
    Shen Kuo

    INTP

    Yeshayahu Leibowitz
    Yeshayahu Leibowitz

    INTP

    Benjamin Greene
    Benjamin Greene

    INTP

    Benjamin Banneker
    Benjamin Banneker

    INTJ

    William Whewell
    William Whewell

    INFP

    Gennai Hiraga
    Gennai Hiraga

    ISFJ

    Thomas Browne
    Thomas Browne

    ENTP

    Otto Schmitt
    Otto Schmitt

    INTJ

    Patrick Geddes
    Patrick Geddes

    ENFP

    Anousheh Ansari
    Anousheh Ansari

    ISTP

    Michael Polanyi
    Michael Polanyi

    INTJ