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Peter Roget and His Thesaurus

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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Physiology and the Nervous System

In 18 14, Peter roget invented a spiral slide rule that could add the logarithms of logarithm. In 18 15, he started working with encyclopaedia britannica. His writing there included b graphies of various scientists and thinkers as well as articles about medical science itself. This was where an area that roget had been interested in really came to the forefront, that was the nervous system.

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