Medieval scholars may be considered forerunners of modern anthropology as well, insofar as they conducted or wrote detailed studies of the customs of peoples considered " different " from themselves in terms of geography.

He also wrote detailed descriptions on ancient Egyptian monuments.

Both Bucer and Peter Martyr wrote detailed proposals for modification ; Bucer's Censura ran to 28 chapters which influenced Cranmer significantly though he did not follow them slavishly and the new book was duly produced in 1552, making " fully perfect " what was already implicit.

Caligula's sister, Agrippina the Younger, wrote an autobiography that certainly included a detailed explanation of Caligula's reign, but it too is lost.

Designer Tom Hall wrote an elaborate design document called the Doom Bible, according to which the game would feature a detailed storyline, multiple player characters, and a number of interactive features.

The Egyptian mathematician Mostafa Abdelkader wrote several scholarly papers working out a detailed mapping of the concave Earth model.

Holwell wrote the most detailed account for the college of Physicians in London, describing not only inoculation, but also showing that the Indians knew that microbes caused such diseases:

" The reason why Taylor believes this, is that " a friend of Kosinski's wrote a letter to the Times, which was published in the Book Review, describing the detailed plans he and Jerzy had made to meet that weekend at Polanski's house on Cielo Drive.

Originally a Cossack born in Ust-Kamenogorsk, Russian Turkestan ( now Kazakhstan ) in a family of Cossack Chorąży and his wife of kazakh origin, Kornilov entered military school in Omsk in 1885 and went on to study at the Mikhailovsky Artillery School in St. Petersburg in 1889. in August 1892, he was assigned as a lieutenant to the Turkestan Military District, where he led several exploration missions in Eastern Turkestan, Afghanistan and Persia, learned several Central Asian languages, and wrote detailed reports about his observations.

Anatomist D. W. Grieve of the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine studied a copy of the film in 1971, and wrote a detailed analysis.

De Puydt, a proponent of laissez-faire economics, wrote that " governmental competition " would allow " as many regularly competing governments as have ever been conceived and will ever be invented " to exist simultaneously and detailed how such a system would be implemented.

In addition, Polybius wrote an extensive treatise entitled Tactics, which may have detailed Roman and Greek military tactics.

In the beginning of 1965, Nikolay Bogolyubov, Boris Struminsky and Albert Tavchelidze wrote a preprint with a more detailed discussion of the additional quark quantum degree of freedom.

Megasthenes wrote detailed descriptions of India and Chandragupta's reign, which have been partly preserved to us through Diodorus Siculus.

He later wrote a detailed account in the book African Game Trails, where he describes the excitement of the chase, the people he met, and the flora and fauna he collected in the name of science.

This plan was detailed by German Field Marshall Erich Ludendorff, who wrote, " German prestige demands that we should hold a strong protecting hand, not only over German citizens, but over all Germans.

René Guénon wrote a detailed critique of Theosophy titled Theosophism: history of a pseudo-religion ( 1921 ).

Stephen King-Hall wrote a detailed eyewitness account of the surrender.

The score for West Side Story was orchestrated by Sid Ramin and Irwin Kostal following detailed instructions from Bernstein, who then wrote revisions on their manuscript ( the original, heavily annotated by Ramin, Kostal and Bernstein himself is in the Rare Books and Manuscripts Library at Columbia University ).

In his extensively detailed report, Céloron wrote, " All I can say is that the Natives of these localities are very badly disposed towards the French, and are entirely devoted to the English.

Hunter S. Thompson wrote an extremely detailed account of his first use of mescaline in First Visit with Mescalito, appearing in his book Songs of the Doomed.

It was placed under the administration of Comte Camille de Tournon, who wrote a detailed inventory of the former Principality of Bayreuth.

According to historian Shabtai Teveth, who wrote one of the more detailed accounts, the assignment was " To undermine Western confidence in the existing regime by generating public insecurity and actions to bring about arrests, demonstrations, and acts of revenge, while totally concealing the Israeli factor.

When asked to complete a detailed report on plans at one and five years into the future, he wrote back that his five year goal was " to produce the largest computer in the world ", " largest " at that time being synonymous with " fastest ", and that his one year plan was " to be one-fifth of the way ".

Another candidate for one of the first scholars to carry out comparative ethnographic-type studies in person was the medieval Persian scholar Abū Rayhān Bīrūnī in the eleventh century, who wrote about the peoples, customs, and religions of the Indian subcontinent.

Martineau also wrote: “ Bopp's Sanskrit studies and Sanskrit publications are the solid foundations upon which his system of comparative grammar was erected, and without which that could not have been perfect.

Knight also wrote in 1956 that Max Weber was the only economist who dealt with the problem of understanding the emergence of modern capitalism " from the angle which alone can yield an answer to such questions, that is, the angle of comparative history in the broad sense.

Mordechai Zaken wrote this important study from an analytical and comparative point of view, comparing the experience of the Assyrian Christians with the experience of the Kurdish Jews who had been dwelling in Kurdistan for two thousands years or so, but were forced to leave Iraq and all of them eventually migrated to Israel in the early 1950s.

In a review Alexander Macfarlane wrote: " The main idea of the work is not unification of the several methods, nor generalization of ordinary algebra so as to include them, but rather the comparative study of their several structures.

In the early 11th century, Abū Rayhān Bīrūnī ( 973-1048 ), wrote detailed comparative studies on the anthropology of religions and cultures across the Middle East, Mediterranean and the Indian subcontinent.

Of his influence, humanities professor Robert Pattison wrote: " Two centuries earlier the establishment would have burned him as a heretic ; two centuries later it would have made him a professor of comparative religion in a California university.

In 1784 Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, who wrote many essays on comparative anatomy for the Académie française, published his Memoir on the Different Positions of the Occipital Foramen in Man and Animals ( Mémoire sur les différences de la situation du grand trou occipital dans l ’ homme et dans les animaux ).

:* Arnold J. Toynbee: Toynbee wrote a similar comparative study of the rise and decline of civilizations, A Study of History, somewhat concurrently with Spengler, which was released much later, around the conclusion of World War II.

:* Fernand Braudel: Braudel wrote a comparative history of civilizations during the Cold War in his A History of Civilizations.

:* Samuel Huntington: Professor Huntington wrote The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, a comparative look at civilizations in the post-Cold War order of international relations.

In the forward to Approaches to the Study of Religion, Ninian Smart wrote that " in the English-speaking world studies basically dates from the 1960s, although before then there were such fields as ' the comparative study of religion ', the ' history of religion ', the ' sociology of religion ' and so on ..."

“ At issue, however, is not the quality of Schatz's research, but MacDonald's use of it, a discussion that relies less on topical expertise than on a willingness to conduct close comparative readings ," Lieberman wrote.

Hales also experimented with ways of distilling fresh water from sea water ; preserving water and meat on sea-voyages ; measuring depths at sea ; measuring high temperatures ; and wrote on a range of subjects including earthquakes ; methods of preventing the spread of fires ; and comparative mortality rates in relationship to rural and urban parishes.

Naomi Seidman, professor of Jewish culture at the Graduate Theological Union, wrote a comparative analysis of the Yiddish and French texts for a 1996 article in Jewish Social Studies, concluding that Night transforms the Holocaust into a religious event, the abdication of God, with the witness both priest and prophet ; Wiesel himself said that Auschwitz was as important as Mount Sinai.

The first cross-cultural studies were carried out by Abū Rayhān Bīrūnī, who wrote detailed comparative studies on the anthropology of religions, peoples and cultures in the Middle East, Mediterranean and especially the Indian subcontinent.

He wrote many religious works such as his Qawanin al-Fiqhiyyah or " The Laws of Jurisprudence " a comparative manual of the jurisprudence of the five Sunni madhhabs ( Maliki, Hanafi, Shafi ` i, Hanbali, Dhahiri ) with emphasis on the Maliki school.

In the use of the comparative method, James wrote, " instincts of animals are ransacked to throw light on our own ...." By this light, James dismisses the platitude that " man differs from lower creatures by the almost total absence of instincts.

Of his first book, The Transcendent Unity of Religions ( London, Faber & Faber ) T. S. Eliot wrote: " I have met with no more impressive work in the comparative study of Oriental and Occidental religion.

Garzon wrote that the case studies strongly support the need for randomized comparative or control group studies.

Hemprich lectured at Berlin University on comparative physiology, and wrote Grundriss der Naturgeschichte ( Compendium of Natural History ) ( 1820 ).

Weber himself wrote: " An ideal type is formed by the one-sided accentuation of one or more points of view and by the synthesis of a great many diffuse, discrete, more or less present and occasionally absent concrete individual phenomena, which are arranged according to those onesidedly emphasized viewpoints into a unified analytical construct ... " It is a useful tool for comparative sociology in analyzing social or economic phenomena, having advantages over a very general, abstract idea and a specific historical example.

In the early 11th century, the Islamic scholar Abū Rayhān Bīrūnī wrote detailed comparative studies on the anthropology of religions across the Middle East, Mediterranean and especially the Indian subcontinent.

McInerney ( a friend of Ellis ) noted the novel's comparative darkness to his own Model Behaviour ( also about 90s nightlife and supermodels ), published the same year, saying " I deliberately wrote a comic novel because you don't go chasing butterflies with sledgehammers ".