The Last Man Who Knew Everything: Thomas Young, the Anonymou

ISBN: 0452288053

Author: Robinson, Andrew

Condition: new

A portrait of scientist Thomas Young relates the life of the remarkable man who made major contributions in such fields as physics, languages, and music, describing how he proposed the light-wave theory and the three-color theory of vision, and was instrumental in the deciphering of the Rosetta Stone. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.