Peter Mark Roget LRCP FRS FRCP FGS FRAS (UK: /ˈrɒʒeɪ/ US: /roʊˈʒeɪ/; 18 January 1779 – 12 September 1869) was a British physician, natural theologian,...
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Roget's Thesaurus is a widely used English-language thesaurus, created in 1805 by Peter Mark Roget (1779–1869), British physician, natural theologian and...
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expressed — Peter Mark Roget, 1852 Synonym dictionaries have a long history. The word 'thesaurus' was used in 1852 by Peter Mark Roget for his Roget's Thesaurus...
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never seen on stage called Edward. Roget is the only character in the play based on a real person- the creator of Roget's Thesaurus. In the play, he is a...
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Merriam-Webster, 2003, archived from the original on 2009-04-21 "Peter Mark Roget", The San Francisco Chronicle, 25 March 2008, archived from the original...
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brother-in-law, John (Jean) Roget from Geneva, was pastor. (Roget and Samuel's sister Catherine were the parents of Peter Mark Roget). Roget introduced Romilly...
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built by one of the founders, David Bellhouse. Its first secretary, Peter Mark Roget, began his thesaurus here. Today the ground floor is tenanted by The...
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prove less easy than it appears on first sight". Four years later Peter Mark Roget offered an explanation when reading at the Royal Society on December...
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dictionary. Roget may also refer to: Roget's Thesaurus, a widely used English-language thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget Dominique Mansuy Roget (1760–1832)...
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Hughes Bay (redirect from Roget Rocks)
V. Blaiklock of FIDS from the Norsel in 1955. Named by UK-APC for Peter Mark Roget, a member of the committee which planned the expedition of the Chanticleer...
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involving the (Paris) police. April 29 – Roget's Thesaurus, created by retired British physician Peter Mark Roget, is first published as Thesaurus of English...
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produced the optical illusion of a motionless wheel. He later read Peter Mark Roget's 1824 article Explanation of an optical deception in the appearance...
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Physiology Considered with Reference to Natural Theology (1834), by Peter Mark Roget. Geology and Mineralogy Considered with Reference to Natural Theology...
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to the Editor of the Miscellanies of Thomas Chatterton January 18 – Peter Mark Roget, English lexicographer (died 1869) March 1 – Gottfried Weber, German...
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(1768–1841), the first treasurer; Alexander Marcet (1770–1822) and Peter Mark Roget (1779–1869). According to its charter, the Medical and Chirurgical...
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Johnson, Vladimir Dal, the Brothers Grimm, Noah Webster, James Murray, Peter Mark Roget, Joseph Emerson Worcester, and others. During the 20th century, the...
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Cooke returned to England, with introductions to Michael Faraday and Peter Mark Roget. Through them he was introduced to Charles Wheatstone, who in 1834...
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all of these scales is usually known as a "polyphase" rule. In 1815, Peter Mark Roget invented the log log slide rule, which included a scale displaying...
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was discovered in 1841 by Captain James Clark Ross, who named it for Peter Mark Roget, British physician, lexicographer and Secretary of the Royal Society...
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1836 – Christian Dietrich Grabbe, German playwright (b. 1801) 1869 – Peter Mark Roget, English physician, theologian, and lexicographer (b. 1779) 1870 –...
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Dalton, James Prescott Joule, Sir William Fairbairn, Tom Kilburn, Peter Mark Roget, Sir Ernest Rutherford, Alan Turing, Sir Joseph Whitworth and Dorothy...
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Peter Mark Roget provided mathematical details about the appearing curvatures and added the observation that the spokes appeared motionless. Roget claimed...
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secondary categories was used most notably in the nineteenth century by Peter Mark Roget to form the six headings of his Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases...
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English poet, biographer and translator (born 1788) September 12 – Peter Mark Roget, British lexicographer (born 1779) October – John Jones (Talhaiarn)...
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Charles Rock (Austria/US/China, 1884–1962) Naxi and English bilingual Peter Mark Roget (UK, 1779–1869) English thesaurus Leo Rosten (Poland–Russia/US, 1908–1997)...
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was attracted to a London physician and scientist, Peter Mark Roget, best known for publishing Roget's Thesaurus. She once said he was the only man who...
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Academic offices Preceded by Peter Mark Roget Fullerian Professor of Physiology 1837–1838 Succeeded by Thomas Rymer Jones...
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all of these scales is usually known as a "polyphase" rule. In 1815, Peter Mark Roget invented the log log slide rule, which included a scale displaying...
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American football history while a medical student at St. Louis University Peter Mark Roget — English lexicographer Jacques Rogge — sports official Mowaffak al-Rubaie...
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5 – Stephen Decatur, American naval officer (d. 1820) January 18 – Peter Mark Roget, British lexicographer (d. 1869) February 1 – Nikolaus von Krufft,...
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