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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.
John Glassie: A Man of Misconceptions: The Life of an Eccentric in an Age of Change. New York, Riverhead, 2012. ISBN 978-1-59448-871-9. Godwin, Joscelyn: Athanasius Kircher's Theatre of the World: The Life and Work of the Last Man to Search for Universal Knowledge. Inner Traditions (2009). ISBN 978-1-59477-329-7
The Last Man Who Knew Everything; The Last Voyage of Columbus; Late Victorian Holocausts; Annuario della Nobiltà Italiana; Libro d'Oro della Nobiltà italiana (private publication) The Lion, the Fox & the Eagle; Le Livre noir du Canada anglais; Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment; Looking East to Look West; Lords of Finance ...
The Man Who Knew (2002), a Frontline documentary about O'Neill; The Path to 9/11 (2006), a two-part ABC television miniseries whose protagonist, O'Neill, is portrayed by Harvey Keitel; The Looming Tower (2018), Hulu's 10-episode television miniseries adaptation of Wright's eponymous 2006 book, in which O'Neill is portrayed by Jeff Daniels
The Man Who Knew Too Much: And Other Stories (1922) is a book of detective stories by English writer G. K. Chesterton, published in 1922 by Cassell and Company in the United Kingdom, and Harper Brothers in the United States.
The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan is a biography of the former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan, written by Council on Foreign Relations Senior Fellow Sebastian Mallaby. [1] It was published in 2016 by Bloomsbury Press.
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 ...