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Thomas Young (scientist)
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Thomas Young was a British polymath who made notable contributions to the fields of vision, light, solid mechanics, energy, physiology, language, musical harmony, and Egyptology. He was instrumental i
Portrait of Thomas Young by Henry Perronet Briggs, 1822–6
Portrait of Thomas Young by Henry Perronet Briggs, 1822–6
Plate from "Lectures" of 1802 (RI), published 1807
Plate from "Lectures" of 1802 (RI), published 1807
Volumes I and II of A Course of Lectures on Natural Philosophy and the Mechanical Arts (1807)
Volumes I and II of A Course of Lectures on Natural Philosophy and the Mechanical Arts (1807)
Title page to volume I of A Course of Lectures on Natural Philosophy and the Mechanical Arts (1807)
Title page to volume I of A Course of Lectures on Natural Philosophy and the Mechanical Arts (1807)
Decipherment of ancient Egyptian scripts
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The writing systems used in ancient Egypt were deciphered in the early nineteenth century through the work of several European scholars, especially Jean-François Champollion and Thomas Young. Ancient
Thomas Young (scientist)
…contributions to the fields of vision, light, solid mechanics, energy, physiology, language, musical harmony, and Egyptology. He was instrumental in the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs, specifically the Rosetta Stone. Young's work influenced that of William Herschel, Hermann von Helmholtz, James Clerk Maxwell, and Albert Einstein…
Jean-François Champollion in 1823, holding his list of phonetic hieroglyphic signs. Portrait by Victorine-Angélique-Amélie Rumilly.
Jean-François Champollion in 1823, holding his list of phonetic hieroglyphic signs. Portrait by Victorine-Angélique-Amélie Rumilly.
Ibn Wahshiyya's attempted translation of hieroglyphs
Ibn Wahshiyya's attempted translation of hieroglyphs
A page from Athanasius Kircher's Obeliscus Pamphilius (1650), with fanciful translations given for the figures and hieroglyphs on an obelisk in Rome
A page from Athanasius Kircher's Obeliscus Pamphilius (1650), with fanciful translations given for the figures and hieroglyphs on an obelisk in Rome
Page from Recueil d'antiquités égyptiennes by Anne Claude de Caylus, 1752, comparing hieroglyphs to demotic script (No1), and to what is now known to
Page from Recueil d'antiquités égyptiennes by Anne Claude de Caylus, 1752, comparing hieroglyphs to demotic script (No1), and to what is now known to be Aramaic in the Phoenician alphabet (No2, No3) from the Carpentras Stele.