Abstract:

The aim of this response is to comment not so much on individual contributions, from all of which I have learned much, or indeed on individual examples of polymaths but rather on the practice of polymathy: on what the examples chosen by the authors of these essays tell us about the structures underlying, enabling, or blocking this practice and the ways in which it has changed over the centuries. It will reflect on the deceptively simple questions of What? Who? How? Where? When? With What Effects?

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摘要：

这个回应的目的不是要评论个人的贡献，我从这些贡献中学到了很多东西，也不是评论博学者的个别例子，而是评论博学者的实践：评论这些文章的作者选择的例子。告诉我们这种做法背后的、促成或阻碍的结构，以及几个世纪以来它的变化方式。它将反思看似简单的问题“什么？” WHO？如何？在哪里？什么时候？有什么效果？