Booksfree.com: Rent Paperback Book The Last Man Who Knew Everything: Thomas Young, the Anonymous Genius Who Proved Newton Wrong and Deciphered the Rosetta Stone, Among Other Surprising by Andrew Robinson

The Last Man Who Knew Everything: Thomas Young, the Anonymous Genius Who Proved Newton Wrong and Deciphered the Rosetta Stone, Among Other Surprising

by Andrew Robinson

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.

Format:  Paperback
Published:  December 2006
Category:  Scientists
Publisher:  Penguin USA
Pages: 304

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