A bestiary, or Bestiarum vocabulum is a compendium of beasts.

The Corpus Juris Secundum is an encyclopedia whose main content is a compendium of the common law and its variations throughout the various state jurisdictions.

An encyclopedia ( also spelled encyclopaedia or encyclopædia ) is a type of reference work – a compendium holding a summary of information from either all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge.

The content of his great work is vast and comprehensive, being nothing short of a compendium of learning and of art so far as they are connected with nature, or draw their materials from nature.

The treatise is not a compendium of all that the Hellenistic mathematicians knew at the time about geometry ; Euclid himself wrote eight more advanced books on geometry.

The most complete compendium of Galen's writings, surpassing even modern projects like the Corpus Medicorum Graecorum, is the one compiled and translated by Karl Gottlob Kühn of Leipzig between 1821 and 1833.

A compendium of poll results on public perceptions about global warming is below.

One of her books, Kaleidoscope Artistry is a compendium of kaleidoscope makers.

Most of the Classic Traveller books are available in compendium volumes from Far Future Enterprises, which is the current copyright and trademark holder of all forms of the Traveller game.

Others, such as Hanokh Albeck, theorize that the Tosefta is a later compendium of several baraitot collections which were in use during the Amoraic period.

In 1941, it published the Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia, a compendium of Roosevelt's key writings, sayings and conversations, which is available online.

* c. 1080 – the Liber pantegni, a compendium of Hellenistic and Islamic medicine, is written in Italy by the Carthaginian Christian Constantine the African, paraphrasing translated passages from the Kitab al-malaki of Ali ibn Abbas al-Majusi as well as other Arabic texts.

* Dr. James Fordyce's two-volume compendium, Sermons for Young Women, is published.

Upon the request of a high official named Sporacius, Theodoret compiled a Compendium of Heretical Accounts ( Haereticarum fabularum compendium ), including a heresiology ( books i-iv ) and a " compendium of divine dogmas " ( book v ), which, apart from Origen's De principiis and the theological work of John of Damascus, is the only systematic representation of the theology of the Greek Fathers.

The Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms is a compendium of terminology used by the United States Department of Defense ( DOD ).

John Keay says that the Kama Sutra is a compendium that was collected into its present form in the 2nd century CE.

Dear Dead Days ( 1959 ) is not a collection of his cartoons ( although it reprints a few from previous collections ); it is a scrapbook-like compendium of vintage images ( and occasional pieces of text ) that appealed to Addams's sense of the grotesque, including Victorian woodcuts, vintage medicine-show advertisements and a boyhood photograph of Francesco Lentini, who had three legs.

Buck is featured in many of the stories in the book Carl Erskine's Tales from the Dodgers Dugout: Extra Innings ( 2004 ), a compendium of short stories by former Dodger pitcher Carl Erskine.

The name " square knot " is found in Dana's 1841 maritime compendium A Seaman's Friend, which also gives " reef knot " as an alternate name.

However, an alternative path allows for the intervening years to be only one thousand, if Seldon is allowed to collect the most intelligent minds and create a compendium of all human knowledge, entitled Encyclopedia Galactica.

To maintain its relevance in the face of changing international relations, AIESEC expands the organization to new countries periodically, a process which is outlined in the organization's global compendium.

In 1941 he wrote Basic Chess Endings, a compendium of endgame analysis which, some 70 years later, is still considered one of the best works on this subject.

The baraitot cited in the Gemara are often quotations from the Tosefta ( a tannaitic compendium of halakha parallel to the Mishnah ) and the Halakhic Midrashim ( specifically Mekhilta, Sifra and Sifre ).

" Capablanca wrote ( as cited by Edward Winter's compendium on Capablanca ): As a chessplayer he was a little lacking in imagination and aggressive spirit.

All that is known of this figure is that he is cited as an authority by ‘ Ali ibn Shaykh Muhammad ibn ‘ Abd al-Rahman who composed a versified Persian medical compendium titled Jawahir al-maqal, a copy of which is preserved at The National Library of Medicine.

The most frequently cited modern collection, The Complete Anti-Federalist, was produced by Herbert Storing and is considered the authoritative compendium on the publications.

For the Lo Shu square was a remarkably complete compendium of most of the chief religious and philosophical ideas of its time.

Constantine I ( emperor ) | Constantine burning Arian books, illustration from a compendium of canon law, ca.

Breviarium ), signifies in its primary acceptation an abridgment, or a compendium.

Augustine, Hilary, Athanasius, Isidore, Gregory the Great and others, and formed part of the library of which the Breviary was the ultimate compendium.

Although much of Chinese philosophy begins in the Warring States period, elements of Chinese philosophy have existed for several thousand years ; some can be found in the Yi Jing ( the Book of Changes ), an ancient compendium of divination, which dates back to at least 672 BCE.

A key ingredient which differentiated " cocktails " from other drinks in this compendium was the use of bitters as an ingredient.

A literature compendium for a large variety of audio coding systems was published in the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications ( JSAC ), February 1988.

In 1651, John French published The Art of Distillation the first major English compendium of practice, though it has been claimed that much of it derives from Braunschweig's work.

Browne's compendium went through no less than five editions, each revised and augmented, the last edition appearing in 1672.

Pappus believed these results to be important in astronomy and included Euclid's Optics, along with his Phaenomena, in the Little Astronomy, a compendium of smaller works to be studied before the Syntaxis ( Almagest ) of Claudius Ptolemy.

A part of the Alexandrian compendium of Galen ’ s work, this 10th century manuscript comprises two parts that include details regarding various types of fevers ( Humyat ) and different inflammatory conditions of the body.

According to the compendium of Charaka, the Charakasamhitā, health and disease are not predetermined and life may be prolonged by human effort.

The compendium of Suśruta, the Suśrutasamhitā defines the purpose of medicine to cure the diseases of the sick, protect the healthy, and to prolong life.

It was the most popular compendium in medieval libraries.

In the editorial notes of his compendium Portraits by Sir Joshua Reynolds, Hilles theorizes that " as a corollary one might say that he was somewhat lacking in a capacity for love ", and cites Boswell's notary papers: " He said the reason he would never marry was that every woman whom he liked had grown indifferent to him, and he had been < u > glad </ u > he did not marry her.

This work was a compendium of the arguments of Völkel's teacher Fausto Sozzini, figurehead of the Polish Unitarian movement.