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Roget, Peter Mark, 1779-1869

 

Dates

  • Existence: 1779 - 1869

Biography

Peter Mark Roget LRCP FRS FRCP FGS FRAS 18 January 1779 – 12 September 1869) was a British physician, natural theologian, lexicographer and founding secretary of The Portico Library. He is best known for publishing, in 1852, the Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases, a classified collection of related words. He also read a paper to the Royal Society about a peculiar optical illusion in 1824, which is often regarded as the origin of the persistence of vision theory that was later commonly used to explain apparent motion in film and animation.

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Peter Mark Roget letter

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 850307
Mss 850307
Date(s): 1850-05-07
Abstract

In English.

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