Another major link is said to be the resemblance between Bacon's " New Atlantis " and the German Rosicrucian Johann Valentin Andreae's " Description of the Republic of Christianopolis ( 1619 )".

Description of physical attributes is the simplest way to identify, classify, and categorize minerals, and they include:

The first literary reference to the island, where it is called Rokol, is found in Martin Martin's A Description of the Western isles of Scotland published in 1703.

Major General Thomas Hardwicke ’ s 1821 presentation of an article titled " Description of a new Genus of the Class Mammalia, from the Himalaya Chain of Hills Between Nepaul and the Snowy Mountains " at the Linnean Society in London is usually regarded as the moment the red panda became a bona fide species in Western science.

In his Description of Africa ( 1668 ), the humanist Dutch Olfert Dapper gives the etymology of the name given to it by his countrymen, Goe-ree Goede Reede, that is to say " good road ".

* Portable Application Description ( PAD ) is used to standardize shareware application descriptions.

The Session Description Protocol ( SDP ) is a format for describing streaming media initialization parameters.

The earliest etymology of " Vinland " is found in Adam of Bremen's 11th century Latin Descriptio insularum Aquilonis (" Description of the Northern Islands "): " Moreover, he has also reported one island discovered by many in that ocean, which is called Winland, for the reason that grapevines grow there by themselves, producing the best wine.

* Scot John Napier's Description of the Admirable Table of Logarithms is published, a great boon to mathematics.

An early description of the opossum comes from explorer John Smith, who wrote in Map of Virginia, with a Description of the Countrey, the Commodities, People, Government and Religion in 1608 that " An Opassom hath an head like a Swine, and a taile like a Rat, and is of the bignes of a Cat.

* Description of Greece ()-This is a fragment of a work dedicated to " Theophrastus ", and consisting of 150 iambic lines.

The Resource Description Framework ( RDF ) is a family of World Wide Web Consortium ( W3C ) specifications originally designed as a metadata data model.

* In the game " Madness: Project Nexus " The Black Prince is referenced when clicking on the Iron Sword and reading it's Description.

* Description: The Baryton-Martin lacks the lower G2 – B2 range a heavier baritone is capable of, and has a lighter, almost tenor-like quality.

* Description: A voice that is richer and fuller, and sometimes harsher, than a lyric baritone and with a darker quality.

In 1987, a request from the U. S. Department of Defense led to the development of VHDL ( VHSIC Hardware Description Language, where VHSIC is Very High Speed Integrated Circuit ).

Lampus is also the name of a Macedonian horse breeder and Olympic victor, whose statue Pausanias describes in his Description of Greece.

In such systems, there is often a machine-readable description of the operations offered by the service written in the Web Services Description Language ( WSDL ).

" Crunchy Frog " is a fictional confection originating from a Monty Python sketch titled " Trade Description Act ", inspired by the British law Trade Descriptions Act 1968.

OWL is built upon the Resource Description Framework ( RDF ).

In the 16th century, many Danes and Swedes still referred to North Germanic as a single language, which is stated in the introduction to the first Danish translation of the Bible and in Olaus Magnus ' A Description of the Northern Peoples.

Universal Description, Discovery and Integration ( UDDI, pronounced Yu-diː ) is a platform-independent, Extensible Markup Language ( XML )- based registry by which businesses worldwide can list themselves on the Internet, and a mechanism to register and locate web service applications.

It is designed to be interrogated by SOAP messages and to provide access to Web Services Description Language ( WSDL ) documents describing the protocol bindings and message formats required to interact with the web services listed in its directory.

* Description: this image is a flatbed scan from the book Recreations in Astronomy by H. D. Warren D. D., published in 1879.

*< b > Description :</ b > This is a flatbed scan of the book cover for the 5th edition release of Hero System Bestiary, a supplement from Hero Games.

* Description: This is a flatbed scan of the cover from the 1977 Ogre " microgame " wargame from Steve Jackson Games.

* Description: This image was produced with a flatbed scan of the Triplanetary rulesbook cover.

* Description: This is a flatbed scan of the box cover for the 1914 board wargame.

* Description: This is a flatbed scan of the box cover for the Greyhawk Wars fantasy board wargame, based on the Greyhawk role-playing game campaign setting.

* Description: This is a flatbed scan of the box cover for the Midway board wargame.

* Description: This flatbed scan of the book cover for the Eberron role-playing game campaign setting was reduced in size by 80 % and a drop shadow added using Paint Shop Pro.

* Description: This flatbed scan of the box cover of the Alternity role-playing game introductory set was reduced in size by 80 % and a drop shadow added using Paint Shop Pro.

* Description: This flatbed scan of the book cover for the of the Star * Drive campaign setting was reduced in size by 80 % and a drop shadow added using Paint Shop Pro.

* Description: This is a flatbed scan of the cover for the Discover Magazine issue dated January 2005.

* Description: This is a flatbed scan of the box cover for the Dragon Pass board wargame.

* Description: slice of a sagittal fMRI scan through a human brain.

* Description of Marker's book of photographs and essays titled Staring Back

The court of N ' Gangue M ' voumbe Niambi, from the book Description of Africa ( 1668 )

The 2nd-century Greek geographer Pausanias provides the greatest amount of information in the eighth book of his Description of Greece, where he discusses Lykaion ’ s mythological, historical, and physical characteristics in detail.

* 1683-Missionary Louis Hennepin returns to France after exploring Minnesota and being held captive by the Dakota to write the first book about Minnesota, Description de la Louisiane

The port of Famagusta, engraving from the book of Olfert Dapper " Description exact des iles des l ' Archipel ", Amsterdam 1703

Crocker wrote about Merrick's case in his 1888 book Diseases of the Skin: their Description, Pathology, Diagnosis and Treatment.

Illustration, typeface, binding, paper, and all physical elements related to identifying a book follow formulaic conventions, as Bower's established in his foundational opus, The Principles of Bibliographic Description.

Building upon this growing interest in his life, in 1704 Psalmanazar published a book entitled An Historical and Geographical Description of Formosa, an Island subject to the Emperor of Japan which purported to be a detailed description of Formosan customs, geography and political economy, but which was in fact a complete invention on Psalmanazar's part.

The method of logarithms was publicly propounded by John Napier in 1614, in a book entitled Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio ( Description of the Wonderful Rule of Logarithms ).

In 1810 John Haslam produced the book Illustrations of Madness ( original title: Illustrations of Madness: Exhibiting a Singular Case of Insanity, And a No Less Remarkable Difference in Medical Opinions: Developing the Nature of An Assailment, And the Manner of Working Events ; with a Description of Tortures Experienced by Bomb-Bursting, Lobster-Cracking and Lengthening the Brain.

The bookseller and publisher Zedler published this book in Leipzig under the name " Great Complete Encyclopaedia of All Sciences and Arts Which So Far Have Been Invented and Improved by Human Mind and Wit: Including the Geographical and Political Description of the Whole World According to All Monarchies, Empires, Kingdoms, Principalities, Republics, Free Sovereignties, Countries, Towns, Sea Harbors, Fortresses, Castles, Areas, Authorities, Monasteries, Mountains, Passes, Woods, Seas, Lakes ... and also a Detailed Historical and Genealogical Description of the World's Brightest and Most Famous Family Lines, the Life and Deeds of the Emperors, Kings, Electors and Princes, Great Heroes, Ministers of State, War Leaders ... ; Equally about All Policies of State, War and Law and Budgetary Business of the Nobility and the Bourgeois, Merchants, Traders, Arts.

His article, " A Description of the Fall Activities of Beaver, with some remarks on Conservation ", was collected in Harper Cory's book Grey Owl and the Beaver ( London: Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd, 1935 ).

) ( or al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan al-Fasi, Arabic: حسن ابن محمد الوزان الفاسي ) was a Moorish diplomat and author who is best known for his book Descrittione dell ’ Africa ( Description of Africa ) describing the geography of North Africa.

In 1819 Wentworth published the first book written by an Australian: A Statistical, Historical, and Political Description of the Colony of New South Wales and Its Dependent Settlements in Van Diemen's Land, With a Particular Enumeration of the Advantages Which These Colonies Offer for Emigration and Their Superiority in Many Respects Over Those Possessed by the United States of America, in which he advocated an elected assembly for New South Wales, trial by jury and settlement of Australia by free emigrants rather than convicts.

* Description and Pictures from the 1939 book " Cowboy Dances " by Lloyd Shaw

* Description at the UK Association of Humanistic Psychology site Includes long book list.

* Description of Maskerado book

* Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market, a book by Walter Bagehot

Jesuit missioner Pedro Lozano wrote in his book Chorographic Description of the Great Chaco Gualamba, edited in the Spanish Cordoba in 1733: " Its etymology indicates the multitude of nations that inhabit that region.

* John Haslam, resident apothecary at Bethlem Hospital in London, produces the book Illustrations of Madness: Exhibiting a Singular Case of Insanity, And a No Less Remarkable Difference in Medical Opinions: Developing the Nature of An Assailment, And the Manner of Working Events ; with a Description of Tortures Experienced by Bomb-Bursting, Lobster-Cracking and Lengthening the Brain, the first full-length study of a single psychiatric patient ( James Matthews ) in medical history and the original description of the symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia.

A version of the story also appears in Clifford Geertz's, " Thick Description: Towards an Interpretive Theory of Culture ", in his 1973 book The Interpretation of Culture, with the scientist and old woman replaced by an Englishman and an Indian respectively.

George Roussos took photographs of various Long Island estates, and his photographs at the Bayard Cutting Arboretum State Park were collected in his book, The Bayard Cutting Arboretum History: A History and Description of William Bayard Cutting and His Country House, Westbrook, Great River, L. I.

* Description ( in Chinese ) of the Battle of Pingxingguan in the on line version of the book: 中国抗日战争正面战场作战记 ( China's Anti-Japanese War Combat Operations ) by 郭汝瑰 ( Guo Rugui ), Jiangsu People's Publishing House, 2005-7-1, ISBN 7-214-03034-9

In 1828, immediately after returning from their honeymoon, she had published A Short History of Spain, and in 1835 the writings during her long convalescence resulted in the publication of two books ; Description of the chapel of the Annunziata dell ’ Arena ; or Giotto ’ s Chapel in Padua, and her first and most famous book for children ; Little Arthur ’ s History of England, which has been reprinted numerous times since then ( already in 1851 the 16th edition was published, and it was last reprinted in 1975 ).