Peter Mark Roget
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Peter Mark Roget
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Peter Mark Roget 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 (thesaurus). In 1824, he read a paper to the Royal Society about a peculiar optical illusion which is often (falsely) regarded as the origin of the ancient persistence of vision theory that was later commonly, yet incorrectly, used to explain appare
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British physician, philologist (1779–1869)
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2001-12-06T22:43:39Z
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2024-09-02T04:38:50Z
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