Last Man Who Knew Everything

Andrew Robinson

RRP: £17.99

Publisher: Oneworld Publications

Publication Date : 01/10/2006

Hardback

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Guardian Bookshop Notes:

The biography of 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.

Publisher's description:

Physics textbooks identify Thomas Young (1773-1829) as the experimenter who first proved that light is a wave. Young's character has a quality all but lost in our narcissistic culture. This is the story of a driven yet modest hero, someone who could make the grandiose claim to have been the last man who knew everything.

ISBN: 9781851684946