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The article just brushes over Champollion but if this story sparks your interest, do yourself a favour and have a look at Champollion's life. He not only decip
by Renaud 6y ago
The article just brushes over Champollion but if this story sparks your interest, do yourself a favour and have a look at Champollion's life.
He not only deciphered hieroglyphs and its rules as a language but he was a linguistic genius, with amazing abilities in ancient languages.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Fran%C3%A7ois_Champollion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Fran%C3%A7ois_Champollion
- mikhailfranco 6y agoYoung was also a remarkable polymath, defining Young's Modulus for characterizing material rigidity/elasticity, and performing the Double Slit experiment demonstrating diffraction, interference and the wave theory of light: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Young_(scientist) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Young_(scientist) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young%27s_interference_experiment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young%27s_interference_experim...