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Edward Lhuyd FRS (1660 – 30 June 1709), also
known as
Edward Lhwyd and by
other spellings, was a
Welsh scientist, geographer,
historian and antiquary...
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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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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 were...
- human,
perhaps a
Titan or
another type of
giant featured in legends.
Edward Lhuyd, a
friend of Sir
Isaac Newton,
published Lithophylacii Britannici ichnographia...
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Buchanan and the
polymath Edward Lhuyd. As ****istant
Keeper and then
Keeper of the
Ashmolean Museum,
Oxford (1691–1709),
Lhuyd travelled extensively in Great...
- 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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Keepers Name From To
Robert Plot 1683 1690
Edward Lhuyd 1690 1709
David Parry 1709 1714 John
Whiteside 1714 1729
George Shepheard 1730 1731
Joseph Andrews...
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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 the...
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Humphrey Llwyd (also
spelled Lhuyd) (1527–1568) was a
Welsh cartographer, author,
antiquary and
Member of Parliament. He was a
leading member of the Renaissance...
- Cetiosaurus, stegosaurs, ankylosaurs, and heterodontosaurids. In 1699,
Edward Lhuyd described what he
believed to have been a fish
tooth (called Plectronites)...
