According to the Suda, a 10th century encyclopedia, Alexis was the paternal uncle of the dramatist Menander and wrote 245 comedies, of which only fragments now survive, including some 130 preserved titles.

Also from Greece, Pedanius Dioscorides, in the middle of the first century, wrote De Materia Medica, a five-volume encyclopedia about herbal medicine that was widely read for more than 1, 500 years.

In his own article on the encyclopedia, Diderot also wrote, " Were an analytical dictionary of the sciences and arts nothing more than a methodical combination of their elements, I would still ask whom it behooves to fabricate good elements.

Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi ( Abulcasis ), who some have called the father of modern surgery, wrote the Kitab al-Tasrif ( 1000 ), a 30-volume medical encyclopedia which was taught at Muslim and European medical schools until the 17th century.

He wrote a favorable encyclopedia article on hypnotism, translated one of Bernheim's works into German, and published an influential series of case studies with his colleague Joseph Breuer entitled Studies on Hysteria ( 1895 ).

It was later Pliny the elder ( 23 – 79 A. D .), who wrote about truffles in his encyclopedia Naturalis historia.

The Greek historian Herodotus described the hippopotamus in The Histories ( written circa 440 BC ) and the Roman Historian Pliny the Elder wrote about the hippopotamus in his encyclopedia Naturalis Historia ( written circa 77 AD ).

Averroes wrote a medical encyclopedia called Kulliyat (" Generalities ", i. e. general medicine ), known in its Latin translation as Colliget.

Kircher was also fascinated with Sinology and wrote an encyclopedia of China, in which he noted the early presence of Nestorian Christians while also attempting to establish links with Egypt and Christianity that modern scholars regard as largely imaginary.

His student Ibn al-Baitar wrote a pharmaceutical encyclopedia describing 1, 400 plants, foods, and drugs, 300 of which were his own original discoveries.

He wrote an encyclopedia of science, which was influential, and a later referent for such modern efforts as the Islamization of knowledge, which have similar intention.

Granius also wrote about Cenae Suae (" My Dinner Parties "), an encyclopedia work that displayed his antiquarian interests in the manner of Aulus Gellius and his Attic Nights.

) wrote the Speculum Maius, the main encyclopedia that was used in the Middle Ages.

Ahmad al-Qalqashandi ( 1355 – 1418 ) wrote the Subh al-a ' sha, a 14-volume encyclopedia which included a section on cryptology.

Kendall of Oxford University in Mathematical Reviews who wrote that this book is " a substantial encyclopedia of queueing theory whose scope is indicated by the 910 items in the bibliography at the end of the book.

" In the Sunday Times, the reviewer wrote: " German 1970s minimalism is invading the British rock scene ... an Englishman is to blame ... Krautrocksampler is a lively history of a fascinating period, half encyclopedia, half psychedelic detective story.

The encyclopedia of Greek mythology called Bibliotheca, or Library, was traditionally attributed to him, but it cannot be his ; it cites authors who wrote centuries later.

" < http :// www. encyclopedia. com / topic / Edward_Eggleston. aspx ></ ref > He wrote a number of tales, some of which, especially the " Hoosier " series, attracted much attention.

McFarlane wrote The Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop in December 1999, it is described in Australian Music Guide as " The most exhaustive and wide-ranging encyclopedia of Australian music from the 1950s onwards ".

In October 1872, he wrote, the novel is " a kind of encyclopedia made into a farce ...

In November 2004, McHenry wrote an article for Tech Central Station ( later renamed TCS Daily ) in which he criticized Wikipedia, a free-content encyclopedia that anyone can edit.

Nathaniel Bowditch ( 1773 – 1838 ) was a noted American navigator who wrote a famous two-volume encyclopedia of navigation and sailing that is still used and published today by the Defense Mapping Agency Topographic Center ( DMATC ).

Though no name of a philosophical work by him is known, according to the Suda, the 10th century Byzantine encyclopedia, he wrote a treatise on the poetry of Hesiod and Homer, but nothing of them has survived.

That information was also contained in his written geography of the Arabian Peninsula, and in the encyclopedia of the world in which he wrote.

Ada Louise Huxtable wrote in The New York Times that Pei's building was " a palatial statement of the creative accommodation of contemporary art and architecture ".

* Alberti wrote an influential work on architecture, De Re Aedificatoria, which by the 18th century had been translated into Italian, French, Spanish and English.

Dan Ingalls, an important contributor to the Squeak project, wrote the paper upon which Squeak is built and constructed the architecture for five generations of the Smalltalk language.

Years later, in 1922, he wrote that the classical style of the White City had set back modern American architecture by forty years.

" Patton had a keen eye for native customs and methods, wrote knowingly of local architecture, even rated the progress of word-of-mouth rumor in Arab country at a day.

He wrote some basic facts about the architecture and some dimensions.

Semper wrote extensively about the origins of architecture, especially in his book The Four Elements of Architecture from 1851, and he was one of the major figures in the controversy surrounding the polychrome architectural style of ancient Greece.

Some 25 years later he wrote " The church was my first essay into the Romanesque style of architecture.

Boston Globe architecture columnist Robert Campbell wrote a glowing appraisal of the building on April 25, 2004.

David Watkin also wrote of a blend of Russian and Byzantine roots, calling the cathedral " the climax " of Russian vernacular wooden architecture.

Sir John Betjeman, however, a man not noted for his enthusiasm for brutalist architecture, was effusive in his praise and wrote to Lasdun stating that he " gasped with delight at the cube of your theatre in the pale blue sky and a glimpse of St. Paul's to the south of it.

Ōyama, who spoke and wrote several European languages fluently, also liked European-style architecture.

Cram wrote numerous publications and books on issues in architecture and religious devotion.

Publishing manifestos was a feature of Futurism, and the Futurists ( usually led or prompted by Marinetti ) wrote them on many topics, including painting, architecture, religion, clothing and cooking.

She wrote all of her major books and stories in the cottage, and the City of Miami designated it an historic site in 1995, not only for its famous owner, but for its unique Masonry Vernacular architecture.

The critic Lewis Mumford, tracing the creative forces that had influenced Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright, wrote in The Brown Decades ( 1931 ): " Frank Furness was the designer of a bold, unabashed, ugly, and yet somehow healthily pregnant architecture.

He wrote two books on architecture: Nouvelles inventions pour bien bastir et à petits frais ( 1561 ) and Le premier tome de l ' Architecture ( 1567 ).

" Lachlan Shaw in his History of the Province of Moray was equally impressed when he wrote " the church when entire was a building of Gothic architecture inferior to few in Europe.

The classical architecture of the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, 1893, was a demonstration that impressed Henry Adams, who wrote that people " would some day talk about talk about Hunt and Richardson, La Farge and Saint-Gaudens, Burnham and McKim and Stanford White when their politicians and millionaires were quite forgotten.

Stirling's sudden passing was considered a great tragedy for architecture ; the Italian architect and critic Vittorio Gregotti wrote in " Casabella " magazine that " from now on, everything will be more difficult ".

The architecture critic Lewis Mumford wrote of the Lansbury Estate ( 1953 ) " Its design has been based not solely on abstract aesthetic principles, or on the economics of commercial construction, or on the techniques of mass production, but on the social constitution of the community itself, with its diversity of human interests and human needs.

Speer wrote in 1978 " My architecture represented an intimidating display of power ".

Architect Victor Steinbrueck wrote in 1962 of the " tremendous growth of less-than-luxury apartments " that at first " appear to be consistent with the clean, direct approach associated with contemporary architecture " but whose " open outdoor corridors " totally defeat their " large ' view ' windows " by giving occupants no privacy if they leave their blinds open to enjoy the view.

He wrote poems of his own, was known as an avid painter, created his own calligraphy style, had interests in architecture and garden design, and even wrote treatises on medicine and Daoism.