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The territorialisation: Starting from medical, universities divide their staudies into subgroups in the 19th century. In English speciality is coined as a word. territorialisation and tribes start referring to the work as "my field", or for historians "my period"

Some polymaths are best known as intellectual brokers, Hartlib known as the intelligencer was a scholar of Bacon and Comenius and his work was to collect and diffuse the ideas and spread them in newsletters.

information overload, with the printing there was an anxiety that there is too much to know. Leibniz wrote a horrible heap of books that is constantly increasing, Adrien Baillet feared the return of the barbarism as a a result of th ebooks increasing in multitudes, This lead to fragments of knowledge and the anxiety as well as praise and derogatory... See more

polymaths are often known as generalists, the knowledge of many disciplines is their speciality.

New disciplines need serial polymaths, and in the age of specialisation, this was a job that was left polymaths to coin new disciplines.

Specialisation becomes a problem, by serving the unity of knowledge. The polymaths survive in the 19th century by working on the unity of science.

Omniscians was coined by Gabriel Harvey, other 17th century where this feature was important and coined by many terms ...are polymath , polyhistor, polygraph (deragotary). another term virtuoso refers to scholars collecting a variety of objects. in latin, scientia universalis, pansophia, polymathi. versatile in Italian.

Passive Polymaths Borges, Huxley, Borges, Sontag, all mention reading encyclopedias as a child.

Kircher tried to do much , complaining in one occasion he was too busy that he did not know which way to turn. Christopher Wren even if he finished St pausl is another person with many projects unfinished. 17th-century individuals where it starts of accomplished individuals having too many things to finish.