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The Last Man Who Knew Everything

by Andrew Robinson

2005 304 pages eng ★ 3.9 (9 ratings)

No one has given the polymath Thomas Young (1773–1829) the all-round examination he so richly deserves—until now. Celebrated biographer Andrew Robinson portrays a man who solved mystery after mystery in the face of ridicule and rejection, and never sought fame. As a physicist, Young challenged th…

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