Download PDF by Nick Rennison: Peter Mark Roget: The Man Who Became a Book (Pocket

By Nick Rennison
ISBN-10: 1904048641
ISBN-13: 9781904048640
Each day hundreds of thousands of individuals all over the world seek advice Roget's Thesaurus—yet Peter Mark Roget, some of the most striking males of the nineteenth century, didn't even commence the good paintings of class which bears his identify until eventually he was once 70. sooner than that, Roget had already made his personal contributions to wisdom in a dozen various fields corresponding to anatomy, arithmetic, schooling, and optics, together with papers on patience of imaginative and prescient which had later impression at the improvement of movies. From his involvement within the starting place of the collage of London to his books on magnetism, galvanism, and body structure, this biography finds the total tale of Roget's impression at the nice concerns and the good personalities of the nineteenth century, and recounts the forgotten existence at the back of probably the most well-known of all reference books.