Author: George Peacock
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 1108057365
Life of Thomas Young M.D., F.R.S., etc.: And One of the Eight Foreign Associates of the National Institute of France (Cambridge Library Collection - Archaeology)
Admired long after his death by the likes of Lord Rayleigh and Einstein, Thomas Young (1773-1829) was the definition of a polymath. Medical books Life of Thomas Young M.D., F.R.S., etc.. By the age of fourteen he was proficient in thirteen languages, including Greek, Hebrew and Persian. After studies in Edinburgh, London, Göttingen 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 Medical books Life of Thomas Young M. D. , F. R. S. , Etc : And On..., 9781108057363. Life of Thomas Young MD , FRS , Etc : And One of the Eight Foreign Associates of the National Institute of France, ISBN-13: 9781108057363, ISBN-10: 1108057365
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Life of Thomas Young MD , FRS , Etc : And One of the Eight Foreign Associates of the National Institute of France, ISBN-13: 9781108057363, ISBN-10: 1108057365
Admired after his death by the likes of Lord Rayleigh and Einstein, Thomas Young (1773-1829) made contributions to such fields as physics, biology, music and linguistics, and he has often been called 'the last man who knew everything'. Published in 1855, this is an engaging and affectionate biography of this extraordinary polymath.
An engaging and affectionate 1855 biography of the polymath Thomas Young (1773-1829), 'the last man who knew everything'.
Admired after his death by the likes of Lord Rayleigh and Einstein, Thomas Young (1773-1829) made contributions to such fields as physics, biology, music and linguistics, and he has often been called 'the last man who knew everything'. Published in 1855, this is an engaging and affectionate biography of this extraordinary polymath.
Medical Book Life of Thomas Young M.D., F.R.S., etc.
By the age of fourteen he was proficient in thirteen languages, including Greek, Hebrew and Persian. After studies in Edinburgh, London, Göttingen 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'.
