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9780131343047

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 Feat

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 Feat

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  • ISBN-13: 9780131343047
  • ISBN: 0131343041
  • Publication Date: 2005
  • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

AUTHOR

Robinson, Andrew

SUMMARY

Andrew Robinson tells of the amazing life and findings of Thomas Young (1773-1829), one of Britain's most intelligent men. Young is the experimenter who first demonstrated that light is a wave, not a stream of corpuscles as maintained by Newton.Robinson, Andrew is the author of '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 Feat', published 2005 under ISBN 9780131343047 and ISBN 0131343041.

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