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97. The Polymath by Waqas Ahmed

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The Rise of Specialisation in the Enlightenment

There appears to have been a rise of specialisation in the Enlightenment. This is something to do with the amount of knowledge that was being created or being available. The idea of this book isn't to say everyone should be as broad as possible and never have anything that they know more about than other things. It isn't the kind of absolute spread of knowledge into any, all fields equally. But I'm rather convinced that it is the case that when you know more things from different fields, or different disciplines, then you're actually more likely to come up with an advance of knowledge.

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