decipher the famous Rosetta Stone now sitting in the British Museum in London. As a fitting tribute to this remarkable man, Andrew Robinson wrote a spirited biography of Young titled 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, Among Other Feats of Genius. I have a certain soft spot for Young because he was born in Milverton, in the county of Somerset in the West of England,
