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Chargement... The Man Who Made Lists (original 2008; édition 2008)par Joshua Kendall
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. 3/12/22 The Man who Made Lists, Love, Death, Madness, and the Creation of Roget’s Thesaurus by Joshua Kendall (pp290). This is a wonderful, detailed biography of polymath Peter Mark Roget, the author of the most celebrated (but hardly the only) thesaurus in history. This is a must-read for all my philologist friends. In his own words, “Words are the instruments by which we form all our abstractions, by which we fashion and embody our ideas, and by which we are enabled to glide along a series of premises and conclusions.” Remote: distant, isolated, insular, lonely, removed, solitary Observant: attentive, mindful, aware, tending toward awareness and appreciation Gifted: talented, endowed, intelligent Educated: enlightened, informed, literate, lettered Thoughtful: cogitative, contemplative, rumination, cerebral During the 19th century, Peter Roget grew up without his father and with a mother who smothered him. Both his mother and later, his sister, had some mental issues later in life. Roget loved classifying things and making lists. He was extremely smart and grew up to become a physician; his preference was to lecture and experiment. Throughout his life, he kept word lists, but it was only when he retired that he focused his time on writing and publishing his now world-famous thesaurus. It was ok. I don't think I found it quite as interesting as the recent book I read on the history of the Oxford English Dictionary. Much of it was interesting, but there were also parts where my mind would wander. Overall, ok. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Peter Mark Roget--polymath, eccentric, synonym aficionado--was a complicated man. He was a scholar obsessed with his work, yet he had an allure that endeared him to his contemporaries--not to mention a host of female admirers. But most notably, he made lists. Roget longed for order in his chaotic world. His father's premature death and the mental illness of his mother and sister threatened to plunge him into his own madness. And so, at the age of eight, he started making lists. From the heavenly bodies to animals, vegetables, and minerals, young Roget began his quest to put everything in its place, one word at a time. Roget lived a colorful life, full of unexpected twists and discoveries: he narrowly avoided jail in Napoleon's France, invented the slide rule, and of course, brought life to the book that would become synonymous with synonyms.--From publisher description. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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