The Last Man Who Knew Everything Thomas Young, the Anonymous Polymath Who Proved Newton Wrong, Explained How We See, Cured the Sick, and Deciphered the Rosetta Stone, Among Other Feats of Genius (Revised Edition)

• Main Author: Robinson, Andrew (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge Open Book Publishers 2023
• Subjects: Biography: general; Diaries, letters & journals; Biography: science, technology & medicine; Egyptian archaeology / Egyptology; Thomas Young;physicist;physician;decipher;Egyptologist;Rosetta Stone;biography
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No one has given the polymath Thomas Young (1773-1829) the all-round examination he so richly deserves-until now. Celebrated biographer Andrew Robinson portrays a man who solved mystery after mystery in the face of ridicule and rejection, and never sought fame. As a physicist, Young challenged the...