Scholar

Judging from what you say, he must be a great scholar.

Everybody loved the simple scholar.

He is something of a scholar.

Alfred, King of England, was a great scholar as well as a great ruler.

Great scholar as he is, he is lacking in common sense.

A great scholar is not necessarily a good teacher.

Born in better times, he would have become a great scholar.

Mr Baker is not so much a teacher as a scholar.

Mr Baker is not so much a scholar as a writer.

Brown is not so much a writer as a scholar.

The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,[…]. Scribes, illuminators, and scholars held such stones directly over manuscript pages as an aid in seeing what was being written, drawn, or read.