Sentence examples for and the earliest example from inspiring English sources

Giambattista della Porta provided a modified form of a square encryption/decryption table and the earliest example of a digraphic cipher in De furtivis literarum notis (1563; "The Notorious Secret Literature").

Krazy Kat was the subject of a chapter entitled "The Krazy Kat That Walks by Himself", which is the most famous piece of writing about the strip and the earliest example of a critic from the world of high art giving legitimacy to the comic strip medium.

This work, Giotto's best, introduced the principles of actuality and reality in painting and was the earliest example of the Italian school.

The 200-year-old Royal Opera Arcade, built by Nash and Repton, is all that survives of the second theatre and is the earliest example of a London arcade.

When there's no written record of a culture – and the earliest examples of writing are around 5,000 years old – we have to rely on artefacts and biological remains.

Some examples of these ceilings date as far back as the late16th century and the earliest examples were made near the end of the 19th century.

Finds of seaxes in Europe range from the 7th to the 11th century, and the earliest examples in England are from 7th-century graves.

Johann Sebastian Bach's church music was cited as the earliest example, and later practitioners included Kurt Weill.

Ranked among the greatest films of all time, it set a new level of acceptability for violence, deviant behavior and sexuality in American films, and is widely considered to be the earliest example of the slasher film genre.

The earliest example dates from 1547.

The earliest example is Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1745-99).