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RE: Who Was the Last Know-It-All? Considering Kircher, Goethe, Humboldt, and Young
Lsst person to know everything.... what i got from the web about them is that at least three, Thomas Young, Joseph Leidy, who built on Goethe's morphology work, and Athanasius Kircher, shown adjacent, have had books written about them, with the epitaph "the last man to know everything" attributed or affixed to their name.
Leidy was extremely smart and wide-ranging, but I think he lived too late to know everything. There was too much going on by the 19th Century.
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