{"id":3,"date":"2009-10-12T16:19:18","date_gmt":"2009-10-13T00:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/?p=3"},"modified":"2009-11-15T16:57:58","modified_gmt":"2009-11-16T00:57:58","slug":"the-last-man-who-knew-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/2009\/10\/12\/the-last-man-who-knew-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"The Last Man Who Knew Everything"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0452288053?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=rebuithetower-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0452288053\">The Last Man Who Knew Everything<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=rebuithetower-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0452288053\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><br \/>\nBy\u00a0 Andrew Robinson 2006<br \/>\n304 pages<\/p>\n<p>The biography of British polymath Thomas Young.\u00a0 Various scientific achievements at the turn of the 19th century.\u00a0 Wave theory of light, significant contributions to the decipherment of the Rosetta Stone.\u00a0 Contributor to Encyclopedia Britannica.\u00a0 Lectures to the Royal Institute published in Lectures on Natural Philosophy.\u00a0 Incredibly driven individual with wide-ranging and sometimes transitory interests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Last Man Who Knew Everything By\u00a0 Andrew Robinson 2006 304 pages The biography of British polymath Thomas Young.\u00a0 Various scientific achievements at the turn of the 19th century.\u00a0 Wave theory of light, significant contributions to the decipherment of the Rosetta Stone.\u00a0 Contributor to Encyclopedia Britannica.\u00a0 Lectures to the Royal Institute published in Lectures on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-nonfiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions\/23"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidclausen.org\/tower\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}