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Life of Thomas Young M.D., F.R.S., etc. - And One of the Eight Foreign Associates of the National Institute of France (Paperback)
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Life of Thomas Young M.D., F.R.S., etc. - And One of the Eight Foreign Associates of the National Institute of France (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Egyptology
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Admired long after his death by the likes of Lord Rayleigh and
Einstein, Thomas Young (1773-1829) was the definition of a
polymath. By the age of fourteen he was proficient in thirteen
languages, including Greek, Hebrew and Persian. After studies in
Edinburgh, London, Goettingen and Cambridge he established himself
as a physician in London, and over the course of his life made
contributions to science, linguistics and music. He was the first
to prove that light is a wave rather than molecular, his
three-colour theory of vision was confirmed in the twentieth
century, and his work in deciphering the Rosetta Stone laid the
foundations for its eventual translation. Published in 1855, this
engaging biography drew on letters, journals and private papers,
taking the mathematician George Peacock (1791-1858) twenty years to
complete. It stands as a valuable and affectionate portrait of 'the
last man who knew everything'.
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