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#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)
In The Age Of Artificial Intelligence, Polymaths Are Back In Vogue https://www.byteseu.com/670256/ #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #FrankDiana #JohnNosta #polymath #TataConsultingServices
#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
I recently had the chance to go on The PolyMath Polycast Podcast hosted by Dustin Miller, and what a great time that was!
We talk about our shared love of learning and lessons we each learned along our polymath / renaissance man journeys.
I'd recommend checking out the episode, and you can find more of The PolyMath Polycast wherever you get your podcasts!
#polymath #podcast #jackofalltrades
AUDIO
https://polycast.transistor.fm/episodes/the-skill-stack-castofalltrades-podcaster-with-orion-siebert