He Did His Best... So Do We All

The time has long past went a single person can read and understand every book in the library... that would be like trying to read every page on the web! Beginning with the ancient Greeks, our ancestors began to accumulate knowledge... sooner or later, the sheer volume of information was bound to exceed the amount that a single person can know and understand. I assume that the turning point was about the year 1550. At that time an individual could read and apply the total accumulated knowledge of humankind... math, chemistry, medicine, astronomy, geography, history, et al. One scholar who typifies the last universally educated man is Robert Fludd. BUT... you’re answer is wrong...

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