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The Age of Exploration—sometimes also referred to as the Age of Discovery—was a period during which the Western world began to look outwards. The rebirth of knowledge and humankind’s interest in its own place in the world marked by the Renaissance set the stage for the application of much of what had been learned since about 1300.
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The term Polymath refers to a person with a very wide and deep range of knowledge. Famous polymaths include Renaissance Man Leonardo da Vinci, Galileo Galilei, and twentieth century philosopher Bertrand Russell.
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Cropley, D.H. (2019). The Age of Exploration (1490–1700): New Worlds and New Problems. In: Homo Problematis Solvendis–Problem-solving Man. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3101-5_7
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