Thomas Young, a great scientist and scholar was called " the Leonardo Da Vinci of England in his time yet few know of his amazing talents today. A doctor, engineer, inventor , prodigy, gymnast, physicist? He was all of these and more. Born in 1773 his ideas and discoveries are the basis of many important scientific fields today. He is now given proper credit for being the first to decipher a hieroglyph on the famous Rosetta stone. He conceived the ideas for actuarial tables, and for stabilizing the ships of the British navy. He discovered interferometry using the double slit experiment and figured out the cause for astigmatism. A mild and happy man, he is an ideal role model for the possible good life of a scientist.
Dr. Daniel Kline has rediscovered his work and described his life in this very readable biography for high schoolers and adults.
