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Thomas Young FRS (13 June 1773 – 10 May 1829) was a British polymath who made notable contributions to the fields of vision, light, solid mechanics, energy, physiology, language, musical harmony, and Egyptology. He was instrumental in the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs, specifically the Rosetta Stone. (From Wikipedia) More about Thomas Young:
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5 additional books about Thomas Young in the extended shelves:![[X-Info]](https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/infouc.gif) Life of Thomas Young, M.D., F.R.S., &c.; and one of the eight foreign associates of the National institute of France. (J. Murray, 1855), by George Peacock (page images at HathiTrust)- The Royal Institution : its founder and its first professors (Longmans, Green, 1871), by Bence Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
- Essay on Dr. Young's and M. Champollion's phonetic system of hieroglyphics; with some additional discoveries, by which it may be applied to decipher the names of the ancient kings of Egypt and Ethiopia. (Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825), by Henry Salt (page images at HathiTrust)
- New fragments, by John Tyndall, F. R. S. (Longmans, Green, and co., 1892), by John Tyndall (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Royal Institution: Its Founder and First Professors, by Bence Jones (Gutenberg ebook)
Books by Thomas Young: Additional books by Thomas Young in the extended shelves:- Young, Thomas, 1773-1829: An account of some recent discoveries in hieroglyphical literature and Egyptian antiquities. Including the author's original alphabet, as extended by Mr. Champollion, with a translation of five unpublished Greek and Egyptian manuscripts. (J. Murray, 1823) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Young, Thomas, 1773-1829: An account of some recent discoveries in hieroglyphical literature, and Egyptian antiquities : including the author's original alphabet, as extended by Mr. Champollion, with a translation of five unpublished Greek and Egyptian manuscripts (Gutenberg ebook)
- Young, Thomas, 1773-1829: The Bakerian lecture On the mechanism of the eye : read November 27, 1800 ([s.n., 1801) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Young, Thomas, 1773-1829: A compendious grammar of the Egyptian language as contained in the Coptic and Sahidic dialects: with observations on the Bashmurie: together with alphabets and numerals in the hieroglyphic and enchorial characters ... (J. and A. Arch, 1830), also by Henry Tattam (page images at HathiTrust)
- Young, Thomas, 1773-1829: A course of lectures on natural philosophy and the mechanical arts (Printed for J. Johnson, 1807) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Young, Thomas, 1773-1829: A course of lectures on natural philosophy and the mechanical arts (Printed for Taylor and Walton, 1845), also by Philip Kelland (page images at HathiTrust)
- Young, Thomas, 1773-1829: Dr. Young's elcture on the mechanism of the eye (s.n.], 1801) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Young, Thomas, 1773-1829: Elementary illustrations of the Celestial mechanics of Laplace. Part the first, comprehending the first book. (Printed for J. Murray, 1821), also by Pierre Simon Laplace (page images at HathiTrust)
- Young, Thomas, 1773-1829: Hieroglyphics, collected by the Egyptian Society (Howlett and Brimmer, printers, 1823), also by England) Egyptian Society (London (page images at HathiTrust)
- Young, Thomas, 1773-1829: An introduction to medical literature, including a system of practical nosology, intended as a guide to students, and an assistant to practitioners ... (Printed by B. R. Howlett for Underwood and Blacks, 1813) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Young, Thomas, 1773-1829: An introduction to medical literature, including a system of practical nosology ... Together with detached essays, on the study of physic, on classification, on chemical affinities, on animal chemistry, on the blood, on the medical effects of climates, on the circulation, and on palpitation. (W. Phillips, 1823) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Young, Thomas, 1773-1829: Miscellaneous works of the late Thomas Young ... (J. Murray, 1855), also by John Leitch and George Peacock (page images at HathiTrust)
- Young, Thomas, 1773-1829: Miscellaneous works of the late Thomas Young ... (J. Murray, 1855), also by John Leitch and George Peacock (page images at HathiTrust)
- Young, Thomas, 1773-1829: Rudiments of an Egyptian dictionary in the ancient enchorial character; containing all the words of which the sense has been ascertained. (J. & A. Arch, 1831) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Young, Thomas, 1773-1829: Thomas Young. A discourse by Professor Tyndall ... delivered at the Royal institution Friday, January 22, 1886. ([London, 1886), also by John Tyndall (page images at HathiTrust)
- Young, Thomas, 1773-1829: Tracts on hydraulics (F. & F.N. Spon, 1862), also by William Nicholson, Johann Albert Eytelwein, Giovanni Battista Venturi, John Smeaton, and Thomas Tredgold (page images at HathiTrust)
- Young, Thomas, 1773-1829: Treatise on architecture, including the arts of construction, building, stone-masonry, arch, carpentry, roof, joinery, and strength of materials (A. and C. Black, 1867), also by Arthur Ashpitel, John Robinson, Thomas Tredgold, and William Hosking (page images at HathiTrust)
- Young, Thomas, 1773-1829: Treatises on architecture, building, masonry, joinery, and carpentry (D. Appleton & Company, 1852), also by William Hosking and Thomas Tredgold (page images at HathiTrust)
- Young, Thomas, 1773-1829: The wave theory of light : memoirs by Huygens, Young and Fresnel. (American book co., 1900), also by Henry Crew, Augustin Jean Fresnel, F. Arago, and Christiaan Huygens (page images at HathiTrust)
- Young, Thomas, 1773-1829: The wave theory of light; memoirs of Huygens, Young and Fresnel (American Book Company, 1900), also by Henry Crew, F. Arago, Augustin Jean Fresnel, and Christiaan Huygens (page images at HathiTrust)
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