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    Edward Lhuyd FRS (1660 – 30 June 1709), also known as Edward Lhwyd and by other spellings, was a Welsh naturalist, botanist, herbalist, alchemist, scientist...
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    Archaeologia Cornu-Britannica, 1790. It was used in the 18th century by Edward Lhuyd and William Pryce as a phonetic character for the Cornish language. In...
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    teeth. It was generally a robust and heavily muscled animal. In 1699, Edward Lhuyd described what he believed to have been a fish tooth (called Plectronites)...
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  • the native peoples of the Atlantic fringe as Celts by Edward Lhuyd in the 18th century. Lhuyd and others (notably the 17th century Breton chronologist...
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  • Old Welsh until the 18th century when it was identified as Cornish by Edward Lhuyd. Some Brittonic glosses in the 9th-century colloquy De raris fabulis...
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    The term "Celtic" was first used to describe this language group by Edward Lhuyd in 1707, following Paul-Yves Pezron, who made the explicit link between...
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    coined by Pennant to suit his derivation of the name". Owen states that Edward Lhuyd referred to the stone as "Maen y Chwyvan" and that he recorded a 1388...
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  • Maryland State Senate 1878 and 1892 Edward Henry Lloyd (1825–1889), Australian politician from New South Wales Edward Lhuyd (1660–1709), Welsh naturalist,...
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    suggests that Edward Lhuyd then held the manuscript on loan, but that the college was able to retrieve it only 13 years later, after Lhuyd's death. The book...
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    the language have largely focused on the phonology. Welsh naturalist Edward Lhuyd published the earliest major work on Scottish Gaelic after collecting...
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  • there and was also producing iron plates called 'Pontpoole plates'. Edward Lhuyd reported the existence of this mill in 1697. This has been claimed as...
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    Dunawd is believed to have been built. By the late 1690s, the historian Edward Lhuyd recorded that the village still had only 26 houses, but by the end of...
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  • Celtic in the linguistic sense arises in the 18th century, in the work of Edward Lhuyd. In the 18th century, the interest in "primitivism", which led to the...
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    in Gaelic with over 75% of the population only able to speak Gaelic. Edward Lhuyd published major work on Inverness Gaelic and after collecting data from...
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    subject of the novel Earthly Joys by Philippa Gregory.[citation needed] Edward Lhuyd – curator of the Ashmolean Museum "Tradescant family". The Vauxhall Society...
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  • also popular for pub signs, greeting cards, and display advertising. Edward Lhuyd's grammar of the Cornish language used Gaelic-script consonants to indicate...
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    the first. It was named Llyfr Taliessin in the seventeenth century by Edward Lhuyd and hence is known in English as "The Book of Taliesin". The palaeographer...
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    elements were published by the Welshman Edward Lhuyd in his Lithophylacii Brittannici Ichnographia of 1699. Lhuyd thought that they represented fish remains...
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    his servant dying of cold in Beddgelert, noted by Welsh antiquarian Edward Lhuyd. There is also the "Cave of the black crwth player" near Criccieth, which...
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    after the burial chamber in the 19th century though legend was traced by Edward Lhuyd to the 17th century. More detailed traditions of Taliesin's biography...
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  • and a number of people had made further copies, including the scholar, Edward Lhuyd, Thomas Beynon of Greenmeadow and the bard and translator James Davies...
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    as far back as the late 17th century. At that time, a scholar named Edward Lhuyd published a book on British fossils that misattributed some ichthyosaur...
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    bibliographer, whose main work was to collect materials on the life and work of Edward Lhuyd. Ellis, the son of John Ellis from Aberystwyth, studied at the University...
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    'Celt' is a modern English word, first attested in 1707 in the writing of Edward Lhuyd, whose work, along with that of other late 17th-century scholars, brought...
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    non-Linnaean descriptor Rutellum implicatum. This fossil was described by Edward Lhuyd in 1699, but was not recognized as a giant prehistoric reptile at the...
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    in southwestern Ireland, the territory of the Iverni. Others, such as Edward Lhuyd, Cecile O'Rahilly, T.D. Kendrick, and Simon Jenkins, have proposed an...
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    Vallancey, Collectanea de Rebus Hibernicis, Vvol. 6, pt.1, 1786, p.279. Edward Lhuyd and John O'Brien, Focalóir gaoidhilge-sax-bhéarla, or An Irish-English...
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    One of the earliest references to the lake dates from around 1700 when Edward Lhuyd sent a questionnaire to every parish in Wales to inquire about geographical...
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  • – December 1714) was a Welsh scholar and assistant to the naturalist Edward Lhuyd. He was Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford from 1709 until his...
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    in the Alps and in North America; it was first discovered in Wales by Edward Lhuyd, and the genus Lloydia (now included in Gagea) was later named in his...
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