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  • "Savants" and the "Philosophers" attributed to Justus of Ghent, which were then in the palace of Urbino (half of them are now at the Louvre and the other half at the Barberini Palace).

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

  • The following year I hosted a game show on MTV called Idiot Savants.

    Dear Mrs. Fitzsimmons Greg Fitzsimmons 2010

  • "Savants can play Bach because they can imitate the melodies that Bach composed," says K. Anders Ericsson, a psychology professor at Florida State University.

    For this champion, life is (mostly) a memory game 2010

  • I honestly believe the creators of DC comics were nothing more that Retard-Savants.

    JLA CASTING SUPPORTS MY THEORY 2007

  • Note 8: Guillaume Mazéas, "Recherches sur la Cause Physique de l'Adhérence de la Couleur Rouge aux Toiles Peintes qui nous Viennent des Côtes de Malabar et de Coromandel," Mémoires de mathématique et de physique présentés à l'Académie royale des Sciences par divers sçavans, & lûs dans ses assemblées [Savants étrangers] 4 (1763): 1 – 32. back

    The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

  • (Paris, 1756): 60 – 77; abbé Ménon, "Mémoire sur le Bleu de Prusse par M. l'Abbé Ménon Correspondant de l'Académie," Mémoires de mathématique et de physique, présentés à l'Académie royale des Sciences, par divers sçavans, et lûs dans ses assemblées [Savants étrangers], 1 (1750): 563 – 72; and "Second mémoire sur le bleu de Prusse," Savants étrangers, 1 (1750): 573 – 92. back

    The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

  • Today's “crazy apes” are Idiot Savants with science degrees, sounding a series of alarms.

    The Age of Eco Surrealism 2008

  • Note 34: Louis-Claude Cadet de Gassicourt, "Decomposition de l'Émail par l'Alun," Mémoires de mathematique et de physique présentés à l'Académie royale des Sciences par divers sçavans, & lûs dans ses assemblées [Savants étrangers] 3 (1760); See also Macquer to [unknown] regarding Cadet's study and the problems of spotting in ceramics, 11 December 1769, BNF M.F. 9135, p. 9. back

    The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

  • Savants are gifted in one or two particular areas, such as mathmatics, music, following maps, train schedules, etc., to the exclusion of virtually every other life skill.

    Think Progress » VIDEO: Springsteen Hits Coulter, Defends Right To Take A Stand On Political Issues 2006

  • Note 4: See also abbé Ménon, "Mémoire sur le Bleu de Prusse par M. l'abbé Ménon Correspondant de l'Académie," Mémoires de mathématique et de physique, présentés à l'Académie royale des Sciences, par divers sçavans, et lûs dans ses assemblées, [Savants étrangers] 1 (1750): 563 – 72; and "Second Mémoire sur le Bleu de Prusse," Savants étrangers, 1 (1750): 573 – 92. back

    The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

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