Sentence examples for A compendium of knowledge from inspiring English sources

Does the world – even the rarified world of chefs – really need so baroque a compendium of knowledge?

Feijóo's monumental Theatro crítico universal (1726 39; "Universal Critical Theatre"), a compendium of knowledge, exemplifies the interests and achievements of the encyclopaedists.

Judging by its illustrations, the manuscript seems to be a compendium of knowledge related to the natural world, including a section about herbs, a section apparently detailing biological processes, various zodiac charts, and pages devoted to the movements of celestial bodies, such as the transit of the moon across the Pleiades.

The book was first published conventionally in December 1897, containing an English dictionary, a medical dictionary, a gazetteer and atlas, desk information and a compendium of general knowledge.

Although lacking in unity, it is a compendium of the knowledge of the time that had been neglected by the less speculative scholars of the new state Confucianism.

Ptolemy's map of the world as it was then known marked the culmination of Greek cartography as well as a compendium of accumulated knowledge of the Earth's features at that time (Figure 2).

Gesner's next monumental achievement was a compendium of recorded knowledge concerning animal life, the Historiae animalium, in which he sought to distinguish observed facts from myths and popular errors.

Baxter published anonymously An Enquiry Into the Nature of the Human Soul (1733; 3rd ed., 1745; Appendix, 1750) and Matho, sive cosmotheoria puerilis (1738), a compendium of scientific knowledge.

We also welcome your tips and tricks and we'd love to publish them on Friday in a compendium of college knowledge.

Eriugena's masterpiece is undoubtedly the Periphyseon (written c.862- c.867), a long dialogue in five books between an anonymous 'Teacher' (nutritor) and his 'Student' (alumnus) that attempts to be a compendium of all knowledge presented within a Neoplatonic cosmology of the procession and return of all things from the divine One.

The idea that you'd rather be robbed than sold a multivolume compendium of knowledge was obviously a parody of the relentless message of self-improvement represented by the ubiquitous encyclopedia salesmen of decades ago, though there was also a poke at the lower and middle classes themselves, which, as another encyclopedia skit demonstrated, really wanted to watch television.