The Last Man Who Knew Everything

Name: The Last Man Who Knew Everything
Brand: Plume
SKU: ByrdShop_0452288053
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mass_market – December 26, 2006

by Robinson, Andrew

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ISBN-13: 9780452288058 ISBN-10: 0452288053

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Plume

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December 26, 2006

Weight

0.6 lbs

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21.40×1.80×14.00 cm

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The Last Man Who Knew Everything: Thomas Young, the Anonymous Genius Who Proved Newton Wrong and Deciphered the Rosetta Stone, Among Other Surprising Feats by Robinson, Andrew. mass_market edition. ISBN: 9780452288058.

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.