Bøger af Peter Mark Roget

Animal And Vegetable Physiology, Considered With Reference To Natural Theology (Volume Ii) has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.

This antiquarian volume contains Peter Mark Roget's famous lexicographic work, "Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases" - subtitled "Classified and Arranged So As To Facilitate the Expression of Ideas and Assist in Literary Composition". This book represents the first attempt at producing a classified collection of related words, and will appeal to collectors of historical antiquarian literature of this ilk. A comprehensive catalogue of English synonyms, this volume would make for a worthy addition to any bookshelf. Peter Mark Roget (1779 -1869) was a British doctor, lexicographer, and theologian. Many antiquarian books such as this are increasingly rare and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this book now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition. It comes complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.

"A curious optical deception takes place when a carriage wheel, rolling along the ground, is viewed through the intervals of a series of vertical bars."-Peter Mark Roget, Explanation of an Optical Deception (1825)Explanation of an Optical Deception in the Appearance of the Spokes of a Wheel When Seen Through Vertical Apertures (1825) describes the research of Peter Mark Roget, a pioneer in identifying phenomena that advanced the invention of filmmaking. Here, Roget wrote about his studies and his observations of how light is transmitted, based initially on looking at the world through a series of slits such as a vertical Venetian blind or palisade. Roget's work showed that an image persists in human perception for about one-sixteenth of a second, introducing one of the primary principles on which animation, film, and television are based.

The book, Animal And Vegetable Physiology, Considered With Reference To Natural Theology (Volume I) , has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. We have represented this book in the same form as it was first published. Hence any marks seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.

Peter Mark Roget (1779-1869), of Huguenot stock, trained as a physician in Edinburgh and London, yet he was increasingly drawn to the sciences, corresponding with Erasmus Darwin, Thomas Beddoes and Humphry Davy. He practised medicine (free of charge) in London at the Northern Dispensary, which he co-founded, and lectured on physiology and medical topics. His Bridgewater Treatise, on animal and vegetable physiology, is also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection. Roget is remembered today for the present work, first published in 1852 following his retirement from professional duties. As the preface makes clear, he had contemplated such a work for nearly fifty years. It supplies a vocabulary of English words and idiomatic phrases 'arranged ... according to the ideas which they express'. The thesaurus, continually expanded and updated, has always remained in print, but this reissued first edition shows the impressive breadth of Roget's own knowledge and interests.

Under the terms of the will of the Oxford scholar Francis Henry, Earl of Bridgewater (1756-1829), a series of books was commissioned, designed to contribute to an understanding of the world as created by God. In 1834 Peter Roget contributed a two-volume treatise to that controversial series, which formed part of the complex intellectual background to Darwin's work on evolution.

The Bridgewater Treatises, published in the 1830s, aimed to reconcile the natural world with God's creation. In this, the first of two volumes he contributed, Peter Roget explores the mechanics of the animal and vegetable systems in order to contribute to understanding the hand of the divine in their development.