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Thomas Young

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American revolutionary

Person · Open Library

Works
25

Top works

  • Viking mission to Mars
  • Digital Marketing in the Age of AI
  • Cormac Mccarthy and the Geology of Being
  • Die with Memories, Not Dreams
  • Summer Land

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Canada
Active from
1945-11-12
2008 universal fire victimbluescanadianclassic rockcontemporary folkcountry

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Listeners
473
Total plays
4,402

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Quotes

  • A permanent alteration of form limits the strength of materials with regard to practical purposes, almost as much as fracture; since, in general, the force which is capable of producing this effect is sufficient, with a small addition, to increase it till fracture takes place.
  • I have resolved to confine my studies and my pen to medical subjects only. For the talents which God has not given me, I am not responsible, but those which I possess, I have hitherto cultivated and employed as diligently as my opportunities have allowed me to do ; and I shall continue to apply them with assiduity, and in tranquillity, to that profession which has constantly been the ultimate object of all my labours.
  • When I was a boy, I thought myself a man. Now that I am a man, I find myself a boy.
  • The well known elevation of the pitch of wind instruments, in the course of playing, sometimes amounting to half a note, is not, as is commonly supposed, owing to any expansion of the instrument, for this should produce a contrary effect, but to the increased warmth of the air in the tube.
  • It may hereafter be considered how far the excellent experiments of Count Rumford, which tend very greatly to weaken the evidence of the modern doctrine of heat, may be more or less favourable to one or the other system of light and colours.
  • The fundamental doctrines of motion have [herein]... been more immediately referred to axioms simply mathematical than has hitherto been usual; and the application of these doctrines to practical purposes has [herein]... been facilitated.

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date of birth
1731-02-19
date of death
1777-06-24
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