達文西是通才的代表人物之一。博学家(polymath),全才,通才或多面手,是指精通多個领域而且表現超群的人[原創研究?]。
文藝復興人(Renaissance man,或拉丁語、意大利語中的Homo universalis、Uomo Universale),是「通才」的一個別稱,特別是在藝術、科學方面。這個詞語的產生是因為在文藝復興時出現了不少這類人,其中巴迪斯蒂·阿伯拉蒂(Leone Battista Alberti,1404-1472)、列奥纳多·达·芬奇就是當中的佼佼者。不过,「文藝復興人」一詞並非專指文藝復興時期所產生的通才。在現代英語辭典,通才也指「對多方範疇感興趣,或對多方範疇有基本、片面知識」。
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