Edward Lhuyd
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Edward Lhuyd, also known as Edward Lhwyd and by other spellings, was a British scientist, geographer, historian and antiquary. He was the second Keeper of the University of Oxford's Ashmolean Museum,
Lhuyd's bust outside the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies in Aberystwyth
Lhuyd's "flat fish", drawn by him in 1698 and now identified as the Ordovician trilobite O. debuchii
Celtic languages
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The Celtic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family, descended from the hypothetical Proto-Celtic language. The term Celtic was first used to describe this language group by Edward
Edward Lhuyd
…considerably more sophisticated in his methods and perceptions than [William] Jones". Lhuyd noted a similarity between two language families: Brythonic or P–Celtic (Breton, Cornish and Welsh) and Goidelic or Q–Celtic (Irish, Manx and Scottish Gaelic). He argued that both families were derived from the Continental…
The second of the four Botorrita plaques. The third plaque is the longest text discovered in any ancient Celtic language. However, this plaque is inscribed in Latin script.