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The Last Man Who Knew Everything (2006), written by Andrew Robinson, is a biography of the British polymath Thomas Young (1773–1829). [1]This biography is subtitled Thomas Young, the Anonymous Polymath Who Proved Newton Wrong, Explained How We See, Cured the Sick, and Deciphered the Rosetta Stone, Among Other Feats of Genius, which gives a very brief idea of Young's polymathic career.
Robinson, Andrew (April 2006). "Thomas Young: The Man Who Knew Everything". History Today. 56: 53– 57. Robinson, Andrew (2006). The Last Man Who Knew Everything: Thomas Young, the Anonymous Polymath Who Proved Newton Wrong, Explained How We See, Cured the Sick and Deciphered the Rosetta Stone. New York: Pi Press. ISBN 978-0-13-134304-7.
In A Man of Misconceptions, his 2012 book about Kircher, John Glassie wrote "many of Kircher's actual ideas today seem wildly off-base, if not simply bizarre," [5] but he was "a champion of wonder, a man of awe-inspiring erudition and inventiveness," whose work was read "by the smartest minds of the time."
The last man (German: Letzter Mensch) is a term used by the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche in Thus Spoke Zarathustra to describe the antithesis of his theorized superior being, the Übermensch, whose imminent appearance is heralded by Zarathustra. The last man is the archetypal passive nihilist. He is tired of life, takes no risks, and seeks ...
The Last Man is an 1826 science fiction novel by Mary Shelley The Last Man or Last Man may also refer to: Last man, a term used by Nietzsche to describe the antithesis of the Übermensch; The Last Man, an American film directed by Howard Higgin; The Last Man, a Czech comedy film directed by Martin Frič
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The book sold 45,000 UK hardback copies in the first three days after publication, and by March 2021 had sold over one million copies in the UK. [25] [non-primary source needed] The first novel in the series was followed by The Man Who Died Twice in 2021, The Bullet That Missed in 2022, [26] [27] and The Last Devil To Die in 2023.
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