The Last Man Who Knew Everything: Thomas Young, the Anonymous Genius Who Proved Newton Wrong and Deciphered the Rosetta Stone, Among Other Surprising Feats

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UPC:
9780452288058
Binding:
Mass Market Paperback
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Publication Date:
12/26/2006
Release Date:
12/26/2006
Author:
Andrew Robinson
Language:
english
Edition:
Reprint
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A portrait of scientist Thomas Young relates the life of the remarkable man who made major contributions in such fields as physics, languages, and music, describing how he proposed the light-wave theory and the three-color theory of vision, and was instrumental in the deciphering of the Rosetta Stone. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.