Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1857.
The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1857.
The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal
Author: Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal
Author: The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal
Author: British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: A Catalogue of the Library of the London Institution: Systematically Classed. Preceded by an Historical and Bibliographical Account of the Establishment. [Compiled by William Upcott, Richard Thomson and Edward W. Brayley.]
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Author: London Institution (London)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 750
Book Description
Catalogue of Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 810
Book Description
Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal
Author: Asiatic Society of BengalPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal
Author: The Last Man Who Knew Everything
Author: Andrew RobinsonPublisher: Open Book Publishers
ISBN: 1805110217
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
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 the theories of Isaac Newton and proved that light is a wave. As a physician, he showed how the eye focuses and proposed the three-colour theory of vision, only confirmed a century and a half later. As an Egyptologist, he made crucial contributions to deciphering the Rosetta Stone. It is hard to grasp how much Young knew. This biography is the fascinating story of a driven yet modest hero who cared less about what others thought of him than for the joys of an unbridled pursuit of knowledge—with a new foreword by Martin Rees and a new postscript discussing polymathy in the two centuries since the time of Young. It returns this neglected genius to his proper position in the pantheon of great scientific thinkers.