Day 1,365: polymath

In 1665, during a period of rapid scientific progress, Robert Hooke, an English polymath, described the advent of new scientific instruments such as the microscope and telescope as “the adding of artificial organs to the natural”.

How artificial intelligence can revolutionise science

Artwork of the day 
Biblical subject
Marc Chagall
Original Title: Sujet biblique
Date: 1956; France
Style: Naïve Art (Primitivism)
Genre: religious painting
Media: lithography, paper
Dimensions: 25.5 x 33 cm

Word of the day 
polymath: a person who knows a lot about many different subjects

Quote of the day
“To present a whole world that doesn’t exist and make it seem real, we have to more or less pretend we’re polymaths. That’s just the act of all good writing.”

― William Gibson