Peter Mark Roget
Schriften (Auswahl)
Bücher
- De chemicae affinitatis legibus. Edinburgh 1798 (Digitalisat) – Promotion.
- Electricity, Galvanism, Magnetism, and Electro-Magnetism. Robert Baldwin, London 1831 (Digitalisat).
- Animal and vegetable physiology considered with reference to natural theology. 2 Bände, William Pickering, London 1834 (Band 1, Band 2) – Bridgewater Treatise Nr. 5.
- Die Erscheinungen und Gesetze des Lebens, oder populäre vergleichende Physiologie der Pflanzen- und Thierwelt (= Die Natur, ihre Wunder und Geheimnisse, oder die Bridgewater-Bücher Band 3 und 4). Paul Neff, Stuttgart 1836 (Band 1, Band 2) – übersetzt von Friedrich M. Duttenhofer.
- 3. Auflage, William Pickering, London 1840 (Band 1, Band 2).
- Thesaurus of English words and phrases, classified and arranged so as to facilitate the expression of ideas and assist in literary composition. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, London 1852.
- 2. Auflage, Longman, Browne, Green and Longmans, London 1852 (Digitalisat).
Zeitschriftenbeiträge
- Description of a new instrument for performing mechanically the involution and evolution of numbers. In: Philosophical Transactions. Band 105, 1815, S. 9–28 (doi:10.1098/rstl.1815.0003, JSTOR:107355).
- Additional facts relative to the subject of the preceding paper. In: Medico-chirurgical Transactions. Band 7, Teil 1, 1816, S. 290–296 (Digitalisat) – Zusatz zu einem Artikel von Johann Abraham Albers.
- On the Kaleidoscope. In: Annals of philosophy, or, Magazine of chemistry, mineralogy, mechanics, natural history, agriculture, and the arts. Band 11, 1818, S. 375–378 (Digitalisat).
- Über das Kaleidoskop. In: Annalen der Physik. Band 59, 1818, S. 362–368 (Digitalisat).
- Explanation of an optical deception in the appearance of the spokes of a wheel when seen through vertical apertures. In: Philosophical Transactions. Band 115, 1824, S. 131–140 (doi:10.1098/rstl.1825.0007, JSTOR:107736).
- Description of a method of moving the knight over every square of the chess-board, without going twice over any one; commencing at any given square, and ending at any other given square of a different colour. In: London and Edinburgh philosophical magazine and journal of science. 3. Folge, Band 16, Nr. 103, 1840, S. 305–309 (Digitalisat, doi:10.1080/14786444008650044).
Literatur
- Peter Mark Roget. [Obituary] In: Proceedings of the Royal Society. Band 18, 1870, S. XXVIII–XL (Digitalisat).
- Peter Mark Roget. [Memoir] In: Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers. Band 30, 1870, S. 419–425 (Digitalisat).
- Donald Lewis Emblen: Peter Mark Roget. The word and the man. Thomas Y. Crowell, New York 1970 (Digitalisat).
- Werner Hüllen: A history of Roget’s Thesaurus. Origins, development, and design. Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-925472-9 (Digitalisat).
- Joshua Kendall: The man who made lists. Love, death, madness, and the creation of Roget’s Thesaurus. 2008, ISBN 978-0-399-15462-1.
- Lawrence Kruger, Stanley Finger: Peter Mark Roget: Physician, Scientist, Systematist; his Thesaurus and his Impact on 19th–Century Neuroscience. In: Progress in Brain Research. Band 205, 2013, S. 173–195 (doi:10.1016/B978-0-444-63273-9.00010-1).
- T. Jock Murray: Roget, Peter Mark (1779–1869). In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Hrsg.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X; doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/24008 (Lizenz erforderlich), Stand: 2004.
- Nick Rennison: Peter Mark Roget. The Man Who Became a Book. Oldcastle Books, 2007, ISBN 978-1-904048-64-0.