While many leading chemists of the time refused to accept Lavoisier's new ideas, demand for Traité élémentaire as a textbook in Edinburgh was sufficient to merit translation into English within about a year of its French publication.

" Stroustrup also wrote what many consider to be the standard textbook for the language, The C ++ Programming Language, which is now in its third edition.

The book served as Confucianism's seminal textbook for Chinese women for two millennia, but cementing the " cult of chastity " as an exemplar of Chinese superiority also condemned many widows to lives of " poverty and loneliness.

* Rudolph Schindler described many important diseases involving the human digestive system during World War I in his illustrated textbook and is portrayed by some as the " father of gastroscopy ".

Although pain has not been traditionally part of the " textbook " description, many patients report severe muscle pain, especially in the thighs.

The Canon of Medicine, the standard medical textbook that Paracelsus burned in a public bonfire three weeks after being appointed professor at the University of Basel, also described the use of opium, though many Latin translations were of poor quality.

However, Christian Scientists believe that the many instances of spiritual healing ( as recounted e. g. in the Christian Science periodicals and in the textbook Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy ) are evidence of the correctness of the teaching of the unreality of evil.

Gibbs's derivation of the phenomenological laws of thermodynamics from the statistical properties of systems with many particles was presented in his highly-influential textbook Elementary Principles in Statistical Mechanics, published in 1902, a year before his death.

Among his many other wide-ranging non-fiction works were The Great Monkey Trial ( about the Scopes Trial ), The Ragged Edge of Science, Energy and Power, The Heroic Age of American Invention, The Day of the Dinosaur ( which argued, among other things, that evolution took hold after Darwin because of the Victorian interest spurred by recently popularized dinosaur remains, corresponding to legends of dragons ), and The Evolution of Naval Weapons ( a U. S. government textbook ).

His book, Principles of Economics ( 1890 ), was the dominant economic textbook in England for many years.

Since these five groups were constructed by methods which did not yield infinitely many possibilities, they were called " sporadic " by William Burnside in his 1897 textbook.

Other copybook styles comprise more than 200 published textbook curricula, many differing from these and from each other in a variety of ways.

Adopted by many as a textbook at a time when Romans were expanding their agricultural activities into larger scale and more specialized business ventures geared towards profitability, De Agri Cultura assumes a farm run and staffed by slaves.

Some are of the same type as the ancient epitome, such as various epitomes of the Summa Theologiae of St Thomas Aquinas-originally written as an introductory textbook in theology, and now accessible to very few, except for the learned in theology and Aristotelian philosophy-such as A Summa of the Summa and A Shorter Summa: many epitomes today are published under the general title, " The Companion to ...", such as The Oxford Companion to Aristotle or " An Overview of " or " guides ", such as An Overview of the Thought of Immanuel Kant, How to Read Hans Urs von Balthasar, or, in some cases, as an introduction, in the cases of An Introduction to Søren Kierkegaard or A Very Short Introduction to the New Testament ( many philosophical " introductions " and " guides " share the epitomic form, unlike general " introductions " to a field ).

Among Camden's other works are a Greek grammar, which remained a standard school textbook for many years ; Remaines of a Greater Worke, Concerning Britaine ( 1605 ), a more popular English-language companion to Britannia, comprising a collection of themed historical essays ; the official account of the trial of the Gunpowder Plotters ; and a catalogue of the epitaphs at Westminster Abbey.

He published a comprehensive synthesis of his ideas in 1885-1901, entitled Das Antlitz der Erde ( translated as " The Face of the Earth "), which was a popular textbook for many years.

Though his own textbook was a major influence in medicine for many years, Osler described Avicenna as the ' author of the most famous medical textbook ever written.

His book Man and Woman, Boy and Girl ( 1972 ) became widely used as a college textbook, although many of Money's ideas have since been challenged.

For many decades however, precisely because Gray's textbook became such a classic, successive editors made major efforts to preserve its position as possibly the most authoritative text on the subject in the English language.

In 1793 he printed a textbook, Outlines of Moral Philosophy, which went through many editions ; and in the same year he read before the Royal Society of Edinburgh his account of the Life and Writings of Adam Smith.

In 1615, he published a book on counterpoint, A New Way of Making Fowre Parts in Counterpoint By a Most Familiar and Infallible Rule, a technical treatise which was for many years the standard textbook on the subject.

It is regarded as " fundamental textbook " by many modern followers of Gurdjieff's teachings, who often use it as a means of introducing new students to Gurdjieff's system of self-development.

For three centuries, the statutes of many medical schools required lecturers on anatomy to use Anathomia as their textbook.

While Protogeometric vases usually turn up, especially outside Greece proper, together with as many or more examples of local stamp, these `` non-Greek '' patterns had mostly vanished by the later ninth century.

In the past year there had been too many examples of his euphoric self-confidence and self-aggrandisement for their liking.

Observing that `` reforms sometimes begin with the contemplation of horrible examples '', Hough catalogued the many abuses encouraged by existing procedures.

There are fifteen species of obligate neotenic salamanders including Necturus, Proteus and Amphiuma, and many examples of facultative ones that adopt this strategy under appropriate environmental circumstances.

Note that this premise uses the phrase " is not ", a form of " to be "; this and many other examples show that he did not intend to abandon " to be " as such.

But many substances, particularly sugars ( examples glucose and sucrose ) contain hydroxyl functional groups without using the suffix.

There is a small museum called Casa de la Máscara ( House of Masks ) which is dedicated to masks, most of them from Mexico but there are examples from many parts of the world.

From the extinction in 1254 of the Hohenstaufen dynasty until 1415, the area was ruled by the Habsburgs, and many castles from that time still stand ( examples include Habsburg, Lenzburg, Tegerfelden, Bobikon, Stin and Wildegg ).

Very little trace has yet been found of large free-standing sculpture, but many examples exist of sculptors ' smaller work.

When Hitler's chief engineer, Fritz Todt, began opening the new autobahn ( highways ) in 1935, many of the bridges and service stations were " bold examples of modernism " – among those submitting designs was Mies van der Rohe.

The style is very popular, with many examples brewed internationally.

While many preserved buses are quite old or even vintage, in some cases relatively new examples of a bus type can enter restoration.

Caithness, Sutherland and the Northern Isles have the densest concentrations, but there are also a great many examples in the west of Scotland and the Hebrides.

* Vuvuzela ( simple short horn, origins disputed but achieved fame or notoriety through many plastic examples in the 2010 World Cup )

There are many examples of noise:

Some classic examples of these types of tasks are multimedia applications ( images, video, and sound ), as well as many types of scientific and engineering tasks.

Particular examples include St Mark's Basilica in Venice, the basilicas of Ravenna, and many churches throughout the Slavic East.

There are many examples in Greek, Norse, and Hindu mythology.

However, the art form combining words and pictures evolved gradually, and there are many examples of proto-comic strips.

There are also many extrabiblical examples of eschatological prophecy, as well as church traditions.

Tycho ( crater ) | Tycho crater, one of many examples of circles that arise in nature

Currently there are not many examples of commuter rail in Africa.

Kits exist which will convert many pistols into carbines by the addition of a shoulder stock ; notable examples are the long barrelled Colt Buntline revolver stock, the Mauser C96 " Broomhandle " holster / stock, and various others for models such as the Browning Hi-Power, Luger, Colt M1911, and the Heckler & Koch VP70.

The wealth of Chicago's religious heritage is evident in its many noted examples of sacred architecture and institutions.

The use of rhyming slang has spread beyond the purely dialectal and some examples are to be found in the mainstream British English lexicon and internationally, although many users may be unaware of the origin of those words.