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Excerpt from Memoir of the Life of Thomas Young, M.D., F. R. S: With a Catalogue of His Works and Essays In the autumn of 1794 he went to Edinburgh, and there attended the lectures of -doctors Black, Munro, and Gregory. He pursued every branch of study in that university with his accustomed intensity, -but made the physical sciences more peculiarly the objects of his research. He now separated himself from the Society of Quakers, and amidst his medical, scientific, and classical la bours, be determined on cultivating some of.those' arts in which he considered that his early. Educationhad left him deficient. But every thing, be its na ture what it might, was with him a science; what ever he followed, he followed sciehtifically.' He was extremely fond of music, and of the science of music he rendered himself a master. He had at all times great personal activity, and in youth he delighted in its exercise. But perhaps it may provoke a smile, though too characteristic an anec dote to omit, that in. Instructing himself in the figure of a minuet, 'he made it the subject of a mathematical diagram. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.