logologo-optometry

The last man who knew everything. Thomas Young, the anonymous genius who proved Newton wrong and deciphered the Rosetta Stone among other surprising feats

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Catalogue Number: 1951
The last man who knew everything. Thomas Young, the anonymous genius who proved Newton wrong and deciphered the Rosetta Stone among other surprising feats
Category: Book
Sub-Category: Hewett collection
Author: ROBINSON Andrew
Year Of Publication/Manufacture: 2007
Time Period: 21st C
Place Of Publication/Manufacture: London
Publisher/Manufacturer: Plume (Penguin Group)
Description Of Item: Paper bck, 288 pages, frontispiece portrait of Thomas Young. Illustrated in black and white in text
Historical Significance: This is a biography of the great polymath Thomas Young (1773-1829). The author's researches are wide but for optometrists his work on optics, accommodation, astigmatism and colour vision is the most significant.
How Acquired: Purchased by Kett Museum
Date Acquired: August 2011
Condition: Very good
Location: Nathan Library. Hewett collection

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