Peter Mark Roget

Peter Mark Roget
Peter Mark Roget.

Peter Mark Roget (* 18. Januar 1779 in London; † 12. September 1869 in West Malvern, Worcestershire) war ein englischer Arzt und Lexikograph.

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Roget's Thesaurus

Am 29. April 1852 erschien sein Werk Thesaurus of english words and phrases [1] das als Roget's Thesaurus für die englische Sprache rasch Bedeutung erlangte. Die Erstauflage umfasste 15.000 Wörter. Der Wortschatz war in sechs Klassen eingeteilt:

  • Abstrakte Bezeichnungen
  • Raum
  • Materie
  • Intellekt
  • Wille
  • Gefühl

Rechenschieber

Roget erfand 1815 den log-log Rechenschieber.

Werke

  • Animal and Vegetable Physiology considered with reference to Natural Theology - eine der Bridgewater Treatises mit einer Erklärung einer optischen Täuschung bei Betrachtung der Speichen eines sich drehenden Rades durch vertikale Öffnungen [2].

Einzelnachweise

  1. Altius Directory: Thesaurus-Day 2011 (englisch), abgefragt am 28. April 2011
  2. In: Annalen der Physik und Chemie, 1825, Band 5, S. 93-104

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