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Polymaths have been called amateurs, dilettantes or even charlatans

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

Clustered polymath have certain pockets of knowledge and some examples are Patrick Geddes, Otto Neurath, Donald T Campbell,

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

Distinction was drawn among polymaths : passive serial and clustered. Huxley, Borges andWells areclaassifued as passive polymaths,

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

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"

Specialism was born to handle the vast knowledge by reducing the areas one has to master. The word scientist was coined to separate the man of letters and investigators of nature. in french "specialite" comes into use. Ironallicay it is polymath August Comte coins the abstract noun specialisation. new words for new trends