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	Peter Roget - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Peter Mark Roget (January 18, 1779–September 12, 1869) studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh and became a distinguished physician and lexicographer.
		While Roget's explanation of the illusion was probably wrong, his consideration of the illusion of motion was an important point in the History of Film, and probably influenced the development of the Thaumatrope, the Phenakistiscope and the Zoetrope.
		Roget died while on holiday and is buried in the cemetery of St James's Church, West Malvern, Worcestershire.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peter_Roget (281 words)

	Peter Mark Roget, first secretary of the Portico Library, Manchester, England
		Peter Roget was born in London, the only son of Rev. John Roget, a Swiss born pastor in the French Protestant Church in Threadneedle Street.
		Roget's observations were made by viewing through vertical slits but he showed the position of each spoke in the wheel at each glimpse and how this could lead to the optical illusion of stasis or backward motion.
		Roget's work showed that an image persists in human perception for about one sixteenth of a second and this forms the basis on which animations, film and television are based.
	www.thornber.net /cheshire/ideasmen/roget.html (1395 words)

	BBC - History - Peter Mark Roget (1779 - 1869)
		By the age of fourteen Roget was studying medicine at Edinburgh University, graduating five years later to tutor the children of a wealthy merchant from Manchester.
		Roget studied the phenomenon with a simple device he built himself.
		Roget did virtually no more work on the persistence of vision after this paper, but it immediately sparked off a surge of inventions.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/historic_figures/roget_peter_mark.shtml (537 words)

	Independent Online Edition > Features (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Roget, of course, had something far more elevated in mind than a book for crossword cheats or students anxious to crank up the word count in their coursework essays.
		Roget's son, John, who took over the Thesaurus when his father died, aged 90, in 1869, greatly expanded the book – and then came to realise it was in danger of collapsing under the huge increase in weight of the words.
		Roget assumed that the type of person who read his book would know the meanings of all the words but just needed to be reminded of one that for the moment was on the tip of their tongue, or glossal extremity, as one wag had it.
	enjoyment.independent.co.uk /books/features/article181860.ece (2404 words)

	Roget's Thesaurus. Webster's Thesaurus.
		Roget's Thesaurus - A classic reference book that has been used by millions all over the world, Roget's International Thesaurus is the product of more than a century and a half of continuous expansion, reorganization, and improvement.
		The revolutionary achievement of Dr. Peter Mark Roget's first edition in 1852 was the development of a brand-new principle: the arrangement of words and phrases according to their meanings.
		Roget's system brings together in one place all the terms associated with a single thought or concept; it allows a wide-ranging survey of language within a book of relatively modest size, without the space-consuming repetitions that so severely limit the scope of thesauruses arranged in a dictionary format with A-to-Z entries.
	dictionaries.theshoppe.com /rogets_thesaurus.html (401 words)

	Roget, Peter Mark on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		For 50 years while he practiced medicine and was secretary of the Royal Society (1827-49), Roget prepared his Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases (1852).
		A plague (blight, bane, calamity, curse or pestilence) on Roget; As the famous Thesaurus celebrates its 150th birthday...
		Roget's Thesaurus: If you're lost for words you could just be living in the past.(Features)
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/R/Roget-P1e.asp (316 words)

	John Ferriar, Mark Roget, William Sturgeon, John Dalton, Hans Geiger and science and discovery in Manchester
		Peter Mark Roget is best known for his "Thesaurus" nowadays, though he was also one of the many famous physicians at the Manchester Infirmary - and this was his primary work.
		Roget studied Medicine and Mathematics at Edinburgh University, and graduated as Doctor of Medicine in 1798, aged just 19 years.
		Roget's Thesaurus is still being printed today, and his name has become synonymous with that work.
	www.manchester2002-uk.com /celebs/scientists2.html (1655 words)

	Adventures in CyberSound: Roget, Peter Mark (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Peter Mark Roget, an Englishman, theorized in 1824 that the retina of the eye retains an image for a fraction of a second after the image is removed or changed.
		Purkyne, first discussed persistence of vision in 1818 but it was Peter Mark Roget's paper to the British Royal Society on persistence of vision presented in 1824 brought it to attention.
		Roget was a fellow (from 1815) and secretary (from 1827) of the Royal Society.
	www.acmi.net.au /AIC/ROGET_BIO.html (467 words)

	Roget's Thesaurus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The name Roget could soon become a virtual synonym for the word "synonym".
		For those who use Roget's Thesaurus it is one of the three most important books ever printed...along with The Bible and Webster's Dictionary.
		Among the other items preserved in the Roget archive is his autobiography, his doctoral diploma and his birth certificate.
	www.rain.org /~karpeles/rogetdis.html (408 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus : Updated & Expanded 2nd Edition (21st Century Reference) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Roget's is probably as popular a name for lending authority to thesauruses as Webster's is for dictionaries.
		Roget's thesaurus has multiple styles of entries - main entries highlighted from the text, subentries that are very close relatives of the main entries, secondary entries that lead back to main entries cross-referenced, and variant spelling forms of words.
		Roget's Thesaurus also uses standard dictionary labeling, so that one can identify the part of speech (noun, verb, etc.), as well as other identifying information (slang terms, informal, regional, etc.).
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0440235138?v=glance (1287 words)

	OUP: History of Roget's Thesaurus: Hüllen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In 1852 Peter Mark Roget eclipsed a rich tradition of topically based dictionaries with the publication of his Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases, Classified and Arranged so as to Facilitate the Expression of Ideas.
		Based on intuition as much as on specific linguistic principles, Roget's book has been a bestseller ever since and is one of the most widely-used reference works ever published.
		Roget's was the first such book to be arranged by topic and the first to encompass the semantic network of the entire language.
	www.oup.co.uk /isbn/0-19-925472-9?view=00 (474 words)

	UCL: Bentham Project, Journal of Bentham Studies
		The plans were discussed during their six week acquaintance, (although there is no record of what they discussed) Bentham wrote Roget that he felt "much the want of a confidential friend, whose sympathetic zeal might animate my languor".
		In his last letter to Roget on the Frigidarium Bentham outlined its primary purpose, to preserve food from season to season, and even from day to day in the hope that the price of the food would remain constant, since there would now be a more constant supply.
		Roget stayed at Queen's Square Place and attended a course of lectures by John Abernethy (1764-1831) at St. Bartholomew's Hospital.
	www.ucl.ac.uk /Bentham-Project/journal/nlcohen.htm (2618 words)

	Peter Roget - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Peter Mark Roget (January 18 1779–September 12 1869) studied at Edinburgh University and became a distinguished physician and lexicographer.
		He created the Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases (Roget's Thesaurus), a classified collection of related words.
		"Roget, Peter Mark" in Dictionary of National Biography
	www.lexington-fayette.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Peter_Roget (166 words)

	1824 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In 1824 an Englishman, Peter Mark Roget published a paper detailing his discoveries in the area of persistence of vision among humans.
		The fact that the eye holds on to an image for approximately one sixteenth of a second after it is no longer visible led to further experiments in animated drawings, culminating with modern motion pictures and video, which are shown at 24 and about 30 frames per second, respectively.
		Above, a portrait of Peter Mark Roget, also author of Roget's Thesaurus.
	userpages.umbc.edu /~jeff2/timeline/1824.html (83 words)

	At The Margin #33
		Peter Mark Roget, whose biography still appears in the front of the Thesaurus, was born in London in 1779.
		I wouldn't try to work without a Roget's, and my paperbound fourth edition, with its 256,000 words and phrases, has seen hard use since I bought it ten years ago to replace the hardback third edition (a high- school graduation present to my wife from her roommate's mother), of which the binding had disintegrated.
		The way to use Roget's is not as a crutch to help you walk a well-worn path but as a machete to clear undergrowth in new territories.
	www.thirdlion.com /ATM33.html (6048 words)

	The Roget's Divinator (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Peter Mark Roget divided the words of the English language into a thousand groups (subsequent editions reduced this number) as published in his Thesaurus.
		Once the correct word heading is found, use the count value of the third card (Princess through King resolve to 11 to 14; Tarot 0 resolves to 22) to count through the subheadings of that entry.
		These are usually marked by leading italic words.
	www.radix.net /~erewhon/rules/roget.html (463 words)

	The Connection.org : Roget's Thesaurus
		It's part of the educational lexicon - written by a polymath named Peter Mark Roget in his retirement years as an attempt to organize the supreme kingdom of language.
		And Roget would be rolling or undulating or rising and falling in his grave if he knew his book were being thumbed thru by students exchanging the word "mad" with "round the bend."
		Roget, Winchester says, was a good person who was moved by the complexities of the world.
	www.theconnection.org /shows/2001/05/20010504_b_main.asp (274 words)

	Dictionary - Roget's Roget's (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		E-text of Roget's Thesaurus No. Two, which is derived from the version of Roget's Thesaurus published in 1911.
		The University Roget's Thesaurus of Synonyms and Antonyms - PETER MARK
		The University Roget's Thesaurus of Synonyms and Antonyms; PETER MARK ROGET.
	www.18things.com /roget's (561 words)

	Timeline; 1852 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Peter Mark Roget compiled and published the first Thesaurus this year.
		The system he created in it has proved to be remarkably flexible and adaptable.
		This work is know known as Roget's Thesaurus.
	www.xyroth-enterprises.co.uk /1852.htm (33 words)

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		In 1853 Peter Mark Roget published the first edition of his "Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases." The book has lasted through many editions over its 150 years, but I believe we are now at the beginning of the end for Roget.
		Many other alleged words are either made up from pleasant syllables (Verizon, Lucent, Viagra) or they are product names usurping the original meaning of the word (Eclipse is both a car, and a flavor of gum).
		Mark Peter Roget died a very wealthy man, as did his son John, who took over the family synonym business for the rest of his own life (John died in 1908).
	www.aspendailynews.com /Search_Columns/view_column.cfm?OrderNumber=395 (738 words)

	Fluentzy: You never get a second chance... to make a lasting first impression...
		If you tend to use English in your day-to-day life, and if you are looking for achieving excellence in it, heres the final word on the line of authorities you need to follow: Quirk for grammar, Fowler for usage, and KevNair for fluency.
		Kev Nair is the celebrated author of the legendary fluent English self-study books in the Fluentzy series and one of the foremost Indian scholars who wield great influence on the thinking of the English-educated people around the world.
		Many people consider the course designed by Nair to be the greatest development in the history of the English language since 1852 when Peter Mark Roget published A Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases.
	www.fluentzy.com /ravereviews.asp (1391 words)

	An Experiment with an Air Pump , a CurtainUp review
		As in the badminton game during which the ruthlessly ambitious young Dr. Armstrong belittles his colleague Peter Mark Roget's penchant for organizing information into meaningful word lists, ideas fly back and forth like the shuttlecocks throughout this provocative follow-up to Ms.
		Fenwick's young associates, Thomas Armstrong (Jason Butler Harner) and Peter Mark Roget (Christopher Duva), epitomize this conflict between single-minded scientific inquiry and an approach that factors art and humanity into the quest.
		Duva's endearing, word loving Roget brought to mind his equally fine portrayal of a hapless young writer caught up in the heady inner circle of the Moscow theatrical world in Black Snow (our review).
	www.curtainup.com /experimentwithanairpump.html (1243 words)

	Word Imperfect
		Includes Roget's introduction, and synopses of his categorization methods.
		he writing world may at last be having second thoughts about Peter Mark Roget, Esquire—polymath, physician, cinema inventor, slide-rule maker, chess master, lexical scholar, and the man who gave us one of the best-known reference works in the English language.
		One hint as to his possibly altered standing comes from the latest version of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, which, although Roget was an editor of the seventh edition and a contributor of more than 300,000 words to it, gives him somewhat short shrift today, with an entry of a mere twenty lines.
	www.theatlantic.com /doc/prem/200105/winchester (549 words)

	AIM25: Royal College of Physicians: LATHAM, Peter Mere (1789-1875)
		Administrative/Biographical history: Peter Mere Latham was born in London on 1 July 1789, the second son of John Latham, physician.
		In 1820 he was a censor for the College, and held that office again in 1833 and 1837.
		In March 1823 he and Peter Mark Roget, fellow physician and savant, were asked by the government to undertake the investigation of an epidemic disorder then rife in the Millbank Penitentiary.
	www.aim25.ac.uk /cgi-bin/search2?coll_id=7159&inst_id=8 (933 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Roget's Thesaurus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Roget was born in England of French parentage and made the development of an English Language Thesaurus his life's work.
		If I have one problem with it, it's that, having found the word I want, I keep reaing for the pure joy of the language.
		It's my firm belief that Roget has help keep the English language a rich, multi-cultural language that is understood worldwide.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0824102355 (267 words)

	Inventing the Tools (from motion pictures) -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The first real steps toward motion pictures were the result of experiments in the persistence of vision.
		Investigation of the subject was stimulated by a scientific paper presented in London, England, by Peter Mark Roget in 1824.
		Roget's paper, Persistence of Vision with Regard to Moving Objects, led investigators to try to build devices that would test his theory.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-229370?tocId=229370 (87 words)

	The Birth of the English Common Law by R. C. Van Caenegem, ISBN 0521356822 And The New Roget's Thesaurus in Dictionary ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Birth of the English Common Law by R. Van Caenegem, ISBN 0521356822 And The New Roget's Thesaurus in Dictionary Form by Peter Mark Roget, ISBN 0425123618
		The New Roget's Thesaurus in Dictionary Form by Peter Mark Roget, ISBN 0425123618
		America's favorite thesaurus is now packaged to attract every student who's ever searched for the perfect word, or a more vivid or descriptive phrase.
	bravesvb.com /lawy.htm (176 words)

	Keeping up with the Joneses - Introduction
		This thesaurus is based on Dr Peter Mark Roget's classification structure for his thesaurus.
		To use a cliche -- there seemed little point in reinventing the wheel by devising a new classification structure.
		Below is a facsimile of the first page of Roget's manuscript.
	www.toadshow.com.au /anne/cliches/clintro.htm (575 words)

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