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The Last Man Who Knew Everything

Andrew Robinson · 2023

97,387 words · about 6 h 49 min to read

Period artwork: Interior of the Bodleian Library, 1845
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Licence: CC BY-NC 4.0 · repository export licence (OAPEN) · Robinson, Andrew (2023), The Last Man Who Knew Everything, open access publisher - licensed CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)

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Author
Andrew Robinson
Language
English
Published
2023
Length
97,387 words · about 6 h 49 min
Sections
3 reader sections
Text
Digital text
Rights
CC BY-NC 4.0 · repository export licence (OAPEN)

 

Contents (3)
  1. Front matter about 2 min
  2. Introduction under 1 min
  3. Foreword about 6 h 47 min
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Front matter

THE Last MAN WHo Knew EVERYTHING: THOMAS YOUNG

ANDREW ROBINSON

REVISED EDITION

Introduction

2. Fellow of the Royal Society Itinerant Medical Student ‘Phenomenon’ Young

Let There Be Light Waves ‘Natural Philosophy and the Mechanical Arts’

Dr Thomas Young, M.D., F.R.C.P.

3. 4. 5. 6. Royal Institution Lecturer 7. 8. 9.

Postscript: Polymathy Then—and Now?

105 123

157 171

215 233 viii The Last Man who Knew Everything

Bibliography 243 List of Illustrations 251 Index 253

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