#OnThisDay Birth Anniversary of Italian #Polymath Galileo Galilei (1564) - known as the "father of observational astronomy", the "father of modern physics", the "father of the scientific method".
Philosopher #Socrates was sentenced to death by the city of Athens (399BC).
The first draft of the complete human #Genome was published in Nature (2001)
#OnThisDay Birth Anniversary of Benjamin Franklin (1706) - American #Polymath and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
Birth Anniversary of Muhammad Ali (1942) - regarded as one of the most significant and celebrated sports figures of the 20th century and one of the greatest #Boxers of all time.
British polar explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott reached the #SouthPole, one month after Roald Amundsen (1912)
Happy Jim Carrey (1962).
In old cowboy #books I read as a kid there were people who had lots of #skills--saddling horses, caring for livestock, fixing fences, maintaining tools, cooking on the trail, harnessing oxen, repairing wagons and barrels, etc. They were always in demand and someone always needed what they were doing.
I think people who understand file systems, network protocols, a couple of coding languages, graphics, etc. are kind of like that, now.
EDIT: As @Shanmonster has reminded me, the physical cowboy skills don't stop being awesome just because lots of our world shifted to an information/service model. If you can code AND fix a fence... damn. You're killing it.
Another without a known birthday: my #linocut of ancient Chinese Han Dynasty #polymath & statesman Zhang Heng (78-139) who invented a seismoscope (simplified seismometer which doesn’t make a record of earth motions) to detect distant earthquakes & indicate their direction, 2000 years ago! Here with a reconstruction of his seismoscope, schematic of how it might have worked & horizontal earthquake surface waves (Rayleigh waves
Happy birthday to #mathematician & #polymath, Mary Fairfax Somerville (1780-1872). As a young widow she made a name for herself when she won a silver medal in 1811 from the Military College at Marlow math journal. Wallace suggested she read Laplace & finding she understood it as well as her tutor her confidence increased, & she expanded her studies to #astronomy, chemistry, #geography, microscopy, electricity & magnetism.
#printmaking #womeninstemm #linocut #sciart #MastoArt
already an entire year this world's been without the kind & magical presence of mr benjamin zephaniah. i still can't quite believe he's gone.
#art #illustration #poetry #vegan #polymath #benjaminZephaniah #freePalestine
Yeah I’m a #polymath—addition, subtraction, multiplication, division—you name it.
I’m trying to think about how to structure my projects in my notes system (currently using Obsidian) - right now I’ve just got them as files in the root folder along with everything else, but I feel like I’ll start to lose projects and then dive too deep into Dataview queries to find what I need.
Anyone got something that works for them well they’d love to share? I’d also love to see what your project notes look like in general (if you take them)!
"[...] in the praise of a liberall genius (as I take my own to be) to all studies and pleasures, [...]"
So sweet. A liberal genius to all studies and pleasures. You're doing it right, Sam. All studies and pleasures, yes, all studies and pleasures.
And I love the double L.
To be a "liberall genius".
#OnThisDay Birth Anniversary of #German #Polymath Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646). He developed differential and integral calculus independently of Isaac Newton.
Birth Anniversary of Diana, Princess of Wales (1961).
Sony introduced the Walkman (1979).
Happy Birthday Carl Lewis (1961) - one of the greatest Athletes of all time.
Imhotep, the OG polymath! 
This ancient Egyptian vizier was an architect, physician, poet & more. He designed Djoser's iconic Step Pyramid 
& pioneered rational medicine 
way before Hippocrates. A true Renaissance man of the ancient world! 
Cosmography archives
A twelfth Century Map of the Universe, authored by Hildegard of Bingen (1099-1180), unique in many respects.
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1915Obs....38..289S/abstract
by Charles Singer (1915)
"In contrast, Locke lived at a time when it was still possible for a well-educated man to master many branches of knowledge. The polymath was still a reality: John Locke, though primarily a philosopher, was a qualified doctor, and wrote on theology, political theory, and education. His herbarium (a collection of 3,000 flowers) preserved between sheets of his pupils' exercises, and now housed in the Bodleian Library at Oxford) is possibly the oldest surviving collection of English wild flowers."
Jeffreys M V. John Locke. Br Med J 1974; 4 :34 doi: https://www.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.4.5935.34 #Research #Article #DOI #PDF #BMJ #History #Histodon #Histodons #Philosophy #Polymath #EarlyModern @earlymodern @histodon @histodons @philosophy
#Image attribution: Rijksmuseum, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL:https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portret_van_John_Locke,_RP-P-OB-51.033.jpg
#OnThisDay Birth Anniversary of Italian #Polymath Galileo Galilei (1564) - known as the "father of observational astronomy", the "father of modern physics", the "father of the scientific method".
Philosopher #Socrates was sentenced to death by the city of Athens (399BC).
The first draft of the complete human #Genome was published in Nature (2001)
> #ArthurSackler, who died in 1987 before #OxyContin was introduced, was a remarkable innovator and "#polymath" by Keefe's account... part of his genius was seeing the fortune to be made by blurring the ethical lines between medicine, pharmaceuticals and marketing. He pushed drug companies to hire armies of sales reps.. [He] refined the art of wooing physicians with direct appeals, enticing.. with lucrative speaker fees, dinners and trips.
https://www.npr.org/2021/04/08/984870694/in-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-sacklers-opioid-empire-an-american-dream-turns-toxic #OpioidEpidemic #PurduePharma
#OnThisDay Birth Anniversary of Benjamin Franklin (1706) - American #Polymath and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
Birth Anniversary of Muhammad Ali (1942) - regarded as one of the most significant and celebrated sports figures of the 20th century and one of the greatest #Boxers of all time.
British polar explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott reached the #SouthPole, one month after Roald Amundsen (1912)
Happy Birthday Jim Carrey (1962).
Hello there! I’m Nicholas, a staff engineer in California, building software professionally now for 24+ years.
I’m also a geek into all sorts of esoterica: #videogames, #movies, #tv, #music, #comics, you name it. Consider myself a bit of a #polymath.
Deaf in one ear (thanks to a now removed brain tumor), but have a cool tattoo now to remind folks I can’t hear them there.
Happily married w/kids.
I hope to use Mastodon authentically and share my thoughts!
Another of scientists without a known birthday: my #linocut of ancient Chinese Han Dynasty #polymath & statesman Zhang Heng (78-139) who invented a seismoscope (simplified seismometer which does not make a record of earth motions) to detect distant earthquakes & indicate their direction, 2000 years ago! Here with a reconstruction of his seismoscope, schematic of how it might have worked & horizontal earthquake surface 1/n
Happy birthday to #mathematician & #polymath, Mary Fairfax Somerville (1780-1872). As a young widow she made a name for herself when she won a silver medal in 1811 from the Military College at Marlow math journal. Wallace suggested she read Laplace & finding she understood it as well as her tutor her confidence increased, & she expanded her studies to #astronomy, chemistry, #geography, microscopy, electricity & magnetism.
