The first known mention of the word was in the third century AD in a book called Liber Medicinalis ( sometimes known as De Medicina Praecepta Saluberrima ) by Quintus Serenus Sammonicus, physician to the Roman emperor Caracalla, who prescribed that malaria sufferers wear an amulet containing the word written in the form of a triangle:

His treatise, De Medicina, was the first medical book printed in 1478 following the invention of the movable-type printing press.

The fourteenth book, De Veterinaria Medicina, was rediscovered only in the 20th century, and gives instructions for the care of animals and elements of veterinary science.

His book, Opticorum Libri Sex philosophis juxta ac mathematicis utiles ( Six Books of Optics, useful for philosophers and mathematicians alike ), published in Antwerp in 1613, was illustrated by famous painter Peter Paul Rubens.

Among them are Secretum (" My Secret Book "), an intensely personal, guilt-ridden imaginary dialogue with Augustine of Hippo ; De Viris Illustribus (" On Famous Men "), a series of moral biographies ; Rerum Memorandarum Libri, an incomplete treatise on the cardinal virtues ; De Otio Religiosorum (" On Religious Leisure ") and De Vita Solitaria (" On the Solitary Life "), which praise the contemplative life ; De Remediis Utriusque Fortunae (" Remedies for Fortune Fair and Foul "), a self-help book which remained popular for hundreds of years ; Itinerarium (" Petrarch's Guide to the Holy Land "); a number of invectives against opponents such as doctors, scholastics, and the French ; the Carmen Bucolicum, a collection of 12 pastoral poems ; and the unfinished epic Africa.

His best-known work was a book on education, De Disciplinis, published in 1531, and his writings on rhetoric included Rhetoricae, sive De Ratione Dicendi, Libri Tres ( 1533 ), De Consultatione ( 1533 ), and a rhetoric on letter writing, De Conscribendis Epistolas ( 1536 ).

Telesio writes in the beginning of the Proem of the first book of the third edition of De Rerum Natura Iuxta Propria Principia Libri Ix ... " That the construction of the world and the magnitude of the bodies contained within it, and the nature of the world, is to be searched for not by reason as was done by the ancients, but is to be understood by means of observation.

* Johannes Trithemius, Polygraphiae Libri Sex (" Six Books on Polygraphy "), 1518, first printed book on cryptography ( thought to really be about magic by some observers at the time )

In 1570 Palladio published his book, I Quattro Libri dell ' Architettura, which inspired architects across Europe.

The Four Books of Sentences ( Libri Quattuor Sententiarum ) is a book of theology written by Peter Lombard in the twelfth century.

Its next owner was Guiglielmo Libri ( b. 1802, d. 1869 ), who is most famous for stealing medieval mansucripts from French public libraries ; he sold it to the London book dealers Payne and Foss, who in turn sold to the British Museum in November 1845.

* I Quattro Libri dell ' Architettura — facsimile of the book at octavo. com

Gentili's first book on issues of international law was De Legationibus Libri Tres, published in 1582.

The book bears the title Hispanicae Advocationis Libri Duo and appeared in 1613.

Lady Wilbraham was evidently an enthusiastic patron, however, and her heavily-annotated copy of Palladio ’ s book ( I Quattro Libri dell ' Architettura ) remains in the collection at Weston Park.

Theologically, Canisius defended Roman Catholic Mariology in his 1577 book, De Maria Virgine Incomparabili et Dei Genitrice Sacrosancta Libri Quinque.

Guidobaldo wrote an influential book about perspective, titled Perspectivae Libri VI, published at Pisa in 1600.

To this period while Aquinas was Regent master at the studium of Santa Sabina can be attributed an impressive list of other works including the Catena aurea in Marcum, the De rationibus fidei, the Catena aurea in Lucam, the Quaestiones disputate de potentia Dei, which convey the contents of disputations Aquinas held during this period at Santa Sabina, the Quaestiones disputate de anima, which were held at Santa Sabina during the academic year 1265-66, Expositio et lectura super epistolas Pauli Apostoli, the Compendium theologiae, the Responsio de 108 articulis, part of the Quaestiones disputatae de malo, the Catena aurea in Ioannem, the De regno ad regem Cypri, the Quaestiones disputatae de spiritualibus creaturis, and at least the first book of the Sententia Libri De anima, Aquinas ' commentary on Aristotle's De anima, the translation of which from the Greek was completed by Aquinas ' Dominican associate at Viterbo William of Moerbeke in 1267.

Here was published his Grammatica Graeca, sive compendium octo orationis partium, remarkable as being probably the first book entirely in Greek issued from the printing press, in 1476.

Finally, in the fourth book, Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception, the returning villain Opal Koboi strapped him to a bomb with octo bonds ( used for containing criminals ), killing him in the resulting explosion and setting things up so that Holly was framed as his murderer.

* 1476: Grammatica Graeca, sive compendium octo orationis partium, probably the first book entirely in Greek by Constantine Lascaris

De Bello Gallico consists of eight books: seven written by Caesar himself, and the eighth book added later by Aulus Hirtius, one of Caesar's generals.

X. 1. 95 ), Varro was recognized as an important source by many other ancient authors, among them Cicero, Pliny the Elder, Virgil in the Georgics, Columella, Aulus Gellius, Macrobius, Augustine, and Vitruvius, who credits him ( VII. Intr. 14 ) with a book on architecture.

Diogenes Laërtius speaks of Philolaus composing one book, but elsewhere he speaks of three books, as do Aulus Gellius and Iamblichus.

He compiled a book called Dies Geniales, constructed after the model of the Noctes Atticae of Aulus Gellius, and the Saturnalia of Macrobius.

The earliest form of the story is found in the fifth book of Aulus Gellius's 2nd century Attic Nights.

Exemplorum libri, of which Charisius cites the second book, and Aulus Gellius the fifth ( VI. 18, 19 ).

However this loyalty was not to last, as related by Aulus Hirtius in the final book of the De Bello Gallico, written after Caesar's death.

Aulus Cornelius Celsus, a first century Roman, described making an excision in the skin to relax the eyelids in his book De Medicine.

The large amount of travel done by Christie and Mallowan has not only made for a great writing theme, as shown in her famous novel: The Murder on the Orient Express, but also tied into the idea of archaeology as an adventure that has become so important in today ’ s popular culture as described by Cornelius Holtorf in his book Archaeology is a Brand.

Carl Barks ( March 27, 1901 – August 25, 2000 ) was an American Disney Studio illustrator and comic book creator, who invented Duckburg and many of its inhabitants, such as Scrooge McDuck ( 1947 ), Gladstone Gander ( 1948 ), the Beagle Boys ( 1951 ), The Junior Woodchucks ( 1951 ), Gyro Gearloose ( 1952 ), Cornelius Coot ( 1952 ), Flintheart Glomgold ( 1956 ), John D. Rockerduck ( 1961 ) and Magica De Spell ( 1961 ).

* Occultist Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa publishes Declamatio de nobilitate et praecellentia foeminei sexus (" Declamation on the Nobility and Preeminence of the Female Sex "), a book pronouncing the theological and moral superiority of women.

The Flemish geographer and cartographer, Cornelius Wytfliet, wrote concerning the Terra Australis in his 1597 book, Descriptionis Ptolemaicae Augmentum ,:

There he was introduced as the son of Cornelius Coot and the founder of The Junior Woodchucks, inspired by the book given to him by his father.

It was later found by Cornelius Coot who gave the book to his son Clinton Coot who, in turn, was inspired to found The Junior Woodchucks as a continuation of the Guardians of the Library.

* The Longest Day ( book ), published in 1959 by Cornelius Ryan

The first Jerry Cornelius book, The Final Programme was made into a 1973 film starring Jon Finch and Jenny Runacre.

The nephews stitch the remaining puzzle together: The British didn't find the library when they reoccupied Drakeborough, but Cornelius Coot, the founder of the City of Duckburg, found it during the late 18th century, and left the book to his son Clinton Coot, the founder of the Junior Woodchucks, who in turn used it as a framework for the very first edition of the Junior Woodchuck's Guidebook, the only one book in the world Scrooge can't buy.

Proposed calculations of the date of creation using the Masoretic from the 10th century to the 18th century include: Marianus Scotus ( 4192 BC ), Maimonides ( 4058 BC ), Henri Spondanus ( 4051 BC ), Benedict Pereira ( 4021 BC ), Louis Cappel ( 4005 BC ), James Ussher ( 4004 BC ), Augustin Calmet ( 4002 BC ), Isaac Newton ( 4000 BC ), Johannes Kepler ( April 27, 3977 BC ) on his book Mysterium, Petavius ( 3984 BC ), Theodore Bibliander ( 3980 BC ), Christen Sørensen Longomontanus ( 3966 BC ), Melanchthon ( 3964 BC ), Martin Luther ( 3961 BC ), John Lightfoot ( 3960 BC ), Cornelius Cornelii a Lapide ( 3951 BC ) Joseph Justus Scaliger ( 3949 BC ), Christoph Helvig ( 3947 BC ), Gerardus Mercator ( 3928 BC ), Matthieu Brouard ( 3927 BC ), Benito Arias Montano ( 3849 BC ), Andreas Helwig ( 3836 BC ), David Gans ( 3761 BC ), Gershom ben Judah ( 3754 BC )

A medallion accredited to Cornelius Agrippa is used in Mike Mignola's comic book short story Hellboy: The Corpse ; it was mentioned as being effective against a vampire cat from Kyoto and proved valuable against a war-god / pig-man.

Cornelius Ryan also published an earlier book on the fall of Berlin entitled The Last Battle.

In the book Not the Way It ’ s Supposed to Be: A Breviary of Sin, author Cornelius Plantinga described the Old Testament concept of shalom:

The first Jews who settled in Rome were expelled in 139 BCE, along with Chaldaean astrologers by Cornelius Hispalus under a law which proscribed the propagation of the " corrupting " cult of " Jupiter Sabazius ," according to the epitome of a lost book of Valerius Maximus:

Engraving of General Havelock from 1886 book True Stories of the Reign of Queen Victoria by Cornelius Brown.

* The Last Battle, a 1966 book about the Battle of Berlin by Cornelius Ryan.

A thoroughly different approach characterised the late work of the British composer Cornelius Cardew who, influenced by the writings of Christopher Caudwell ( also alluded to by Lachenmann in his work for two guitars Salut für Caudwell ( 1977 )) and Mao Tse-Tung, famously denounced the work of the post-war avant-garde with which he had previously been associated, in his book Stockhausen Serves Imperialism ( in which he attacked not just Karlheinz Stockhausen but also the music of John Cage and others ).

He added them to the other existing biographies, despite the fact that the writer speaks of himself as a contemporary and friend of Atticus, and that the manuscript bore the heading E libro posteriore Cornelii Nepotis (' from the last book of Cornelius Nepos ') At last Dionysius Lambinus's edition of 1569 bore a commentary demonstrating on stylistic grounds that the work must have been of Nepos alone, and not Aemilius Probus.

General Gavin's experiences in the invasion of Normandy were detailed by Cornelius Ryan in his book The Longest Day.

Gibbons and the rest of the 101st went on to successfully take the first bridge in the operation in the Netherlands known as Operation Market Garden ( described in Cornelius Ryan's book A Bridge Too Far ).

Michael Klepper and Robert Gunther, in their book The Wealthy 100, posit that, with adjustment for inflation, Girard was the fourth-wealthiest American of all time, behind John D. Rockefeller, Cornelius Vanderbilt and John Jacob Astor.

Engraving from 1886 book " True Stories of the Reign of Queen Victoria " by Cornelius Brown

Cornelius Brown already had one book to his credit The Annals of Newark and in 1882 came The Worthies of Notts.