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

A biography of late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century British scientist Thomas Young, who is credited with discovering the three-color theory of vision and deciphering the text of the Rosetta Stone.

Pi Press
2006
9780131343047
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129685