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    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (xxx, 261 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Edition: Revised edition, with a foreword by Martin Rees
    ISBN: 9781805110200 , 9781805110217 , 9781805110224 , 9781805110231 , 9781805110248
    Content: 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 theories of Isaac Newton and proved that light is a wave. As a physician, he showed how the eye focuses and proposed the three-colour theory of vision, only confirmed a century and a half later. As an Egyptologist, he made crucial contributions to deciphering the Rosetta Stone. It is hard to grasp how much Young knew. This biography is the fascinating story of a driven yet modest hero who cared less about what others thought of him than for the joys of an unbridled pursuit of knowledge—with a new foreword by Martin Rees and a new postscript discussing polymathy in the two centuries since the time of Young. It returns this neglected genius to his proper position in the pantheon of great scientific thinkers
    Note: The first edition of 'The Last Man Who Knew Everything' was published in 2006 by Pi Press in the United States and Oneworld Publications in the United Kingdom , Digitale material and resources associated with this volume are available at: https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/OBP.0344#resources , English
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9781805110194
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9781805110187
    Language: English
    Subjects: Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures , Natural Sciences
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    Keywords: Young, Thomas 1773-1829 ; Biografie
    Author information: Robinson, Andrew 1957-
    Author information: Rees, Martin 1942-
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