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Paul Prudence
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Illustration from 'A Course of Lectures on Natural Philosophy and the Mechanical Arts' - Thomas Young [1845] Full text can be found here: https://archive.org/details/b21301840_0002/page/n179/mode/thumb?view=theater
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Paul Prudence
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Something of an Egyptian flavour? Young was involved the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs (specifically the Rosetta Stone), before Champollion, during his period of studies on optics and light.
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