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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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    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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    use of Peano's notation by Bertrand Russell. Turned a presented in Edward Lhuyd's Archaeologia Britannica, 1707. Turned a in William Pryce's Archaeologia...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • marbles to the University of Oxford (displayed in Ashmolean Museum). 1690: Edward Lhuyd, Welsh antiquary (d. 1709) 1661: Famiano Nardini, Italian archaeologist...
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    Tradescant is the subject of the novel Earthly Joys by Philippa Gregory. Edward Lhuyd – curator of the Ashmolean Museum "Tradescant family". The Vauxhall Society...
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    and that fossils were organic remains buried in the process. 1699 - Edward Lhuyd names the new sauropod genus and species "Ruttelum implicatum". By doing...
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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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  • 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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    languages written by Edward Lhuyd. Following an extensive tour of Great Britain and Ireland lasting more than four years, Lhuyd began work on Glossography...
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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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  • CELTICA 1960 Vol. V p. 218. The Tour of Edward Lhuyd in Ireland. 1976 Vol. XI p. 34. Unpublished Letters by Edward Lhuyd in the National Library of Scotland...
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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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    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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    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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    coined by Pennant to suit his derivation of the name"; he noted that Edward Lhuyd referred to the stone as "Maen y Chwyvan", and that he recorded a 1388...
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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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  • George Buchanan in the 16th century and the first field study was by Edward Lhuyd around 1700. He published his work in 1707, shortly after translating...
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  • 12 - Abraham de la Pryme, English antiquary (b. 1671) 1709: June 30 - Edward Lhuyd, Welsh antiquary (b. 1660) "Herculaneum - ancient city, Italy". Encyclopedia...
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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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  • 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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    Camden (1551–1623). In the late seventeenth century, the Welsh scholar Edward Lhuyd – second Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford – endorsed the conflation...
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    Roundheads during the English Civil War and a grave under it opened. Edward Lhuyd examined the pillar and copied the inscription in 1696. The lower half...
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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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    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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    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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