Roget biography
Roget biography
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Peter Mark Roget
British physician, philologist (–)
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Peter Mark RogetLRCP FRS FRCP FGS FRAS (;[1][2] 18 January – 12 September ) was a British physician, natural theologian, lexicographer, and founding secretary of The Portico Library.[3] He is best known for publishing, in , the Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases, a classified collection of related words (thesaurus).
In , 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.[4]
Early life
Peter Mark Roget was born in Broad Street, Soho, London, the son of Jean (John) Roget (–), a Genevan cleric born to French parents, and Catherine "Kitty" Romilly, the sister of British politician, abolitio