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BRIGHT, Timothy (1551 – 1615)

1551 – 1615

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

1586 CE

#4918

A treatise of melancholie, containing the causes thereof.

First comprehensive description of depression in English. Bright also produced the first noteworthy geometrical system of shorthand, consisting of circles, half-circles, and straight lines (Characterie, London, 1588).