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Roget, Peter Mark
Peter Mark Roget
Peter Mark Roget
( ; 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 (
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 apparent motion in film and animation.
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Roget's International thesaurus /
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Roget, Peter Mark
Published 1971
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Thesaurus of english words and phrases, classified and arranged so as to facilitate the expression of ideas and to assist in literary composition /
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Roget, Peter Mark
Published 1936
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The concise Roget's international thesaurus /
by
Roget, Peter Mark
,
Chapman, Robert L., 1920-
Published 1977
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