Among the most famous of Cambridge polymaths are Sir Isaac Newton.

剑桥最有名气的学者要算是艾萨克·牛顿了，此外还有弗朗西斯培根。

Notable among these devices was the Step Reckoner, built by German polymath Gottfried Leibniz in 1694.

在这些机器中，莱布法器格外着名 它由德国博学家戈特弗里德·莱布于1694年建造。

It was also a reminder that, even in an age of polymaths, the breadth of the Tuscan master's interests was exceptional.

这提醒人们，即使在一个博学多才的时代，这位意大利托斯卡纳区的大师的兴趣之乎常人。

Good biographies of some of the greatest mathematical minds are rare: because they were polymaths, biographers who can interpret their manifold achievements for the ordinary mortal are themselves thin on the ground.

因为这些数学家博学多才，能把他们的众多成就解释给普通人看的传记作家本身就寥寥无几。

But everybody was stuck. A brilliant English physicist and polymath, Thomas Young, correctly worked out that a group of hieroglyphs repeated several times on the Rosetta Stone wrote the sounds of a royal name-that of Ptolemy.

但没人取得任何进展。直到一位聪颖博学的英国学者托马斯杨发现，一组在石碑上反复出现的象形文字代表了一个王室姓氏的发音—托勒密。