Although Ptolemy wrote works on mathematics, geography, and optics, he is chiefly known for the Almagest, a 13-book compendium on astronomy that became the basis for mankind's world picture until the heliocentric system of Nicolaus Copernicus began to supplant Ptolemy's geocentric system in the mid-16th century.
If this addition, like others identified by Michael McVaugh, was Gilbertus's own and intended to be added to his Compendium, then it appears that the physician is here appropriating a practice from outside medical theoretical knowledge for inclusion in his seven-book compendium of practical medicine.
To enlighten me, along came a collection of progressive, no-holds-barred sex-education books from Compendium Books, Camden, in north london.
Libyan officials identified the principal office there as the Center for the Study of the Green Book, a compendium of Colonel Qaddafi's idiosyncratic political ideas.
In 1974, she put together "The Black Book," a compendium of photographs, drawings, songs, letters, and other documents that charts black American history from slavery through Reconstruction to modern times.
And in the first room of the Central Pavilion is a glass case containing Carl Gustav Jung's "Red Book," a compendium of visions, dreams and fantasies that he spent 16 years compiling.
The new book, a compendium of horror film artwork to be released by Chicago Review Press on Friday, features scores of posters, advertisements and video covers culled from the collection of J. A. Kerswell, 43, an Englishman who grew up watching classic American horror films on late-night television or on rented VHS tapes.
This book, a compendium of his life's research, is Mischel's attempt to demonstrate that self-control can be learned.
The topics range from such disparate subjects as culture, superstitions, natural history, physiology, and psychology so that reviewers variously called the book "a compendium", "a browser's book" and full of "encyclopedic mini-essays".
It was then that I first read Rage in my father's battered old copy of The Bachman Books, a compendium of the first four novels published under King's long-dead pseudonym, invented in order to allow him to publish more books faster.
Michelle Obama has been thrust, after all, into a history-making role, and Michelle is our first book-length compendium of facts about her. (Another Michelle Obama biography is due to be released in November).
