Meaning of philomath | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A lover of learning; a scholar.
   archaic
2. An astrologer or predictor.

Examples

“For this (in my humble opinion, not very important purpose, and fitter to employ the talent of a philomath than a Newton) he and Leibnitz, much about the same, struck out a fluxional method, which they both took for a demonstration.”

“Jerman for twenty years past had been the author of a Quaker almanac, and had for about the same time been engaged in a fierce almanac warfare with Jacob Taylor, a philomath and a printer of Friends’ books.”

“"The success of an almanac depended upon the appeal of the "philomath"-the resident astrologer who did the writing and predicting."”

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