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.
The result is the book Extreme Cosmos, my attempt at a definitive compendium of the records of the cosmos: the coldest, the fastest, the biggest, the brightest, and even the loudest.
The Hippocratic Corpus was a compendium of medical records from Ancient Greece and one of the first attempts to classify diseases according to symptoms and observations.
So in 1954 he published a compendium of facts and records.
They belong to the show's curator, Antoine de Beaupré — author of the photography-focused compendium Total Records, and founder of Librairie 213 (a Paris bookshop specializing in out-of-print titles).
A Compendium of Disconcerting Misadventures Recently Recorded in the Columns of the Press.
By W. E. Farbstein The New Yorker, July 23 , 1938P. 20 A Compendium of Disconcerting Misadventures Recently Recorded in the Columns of the Press.
In fact, the church has a popular -- and free -- Web site, FamilySearch.org, which last year released the Freedman's Bank Records, a compendium of slave-related information that took church volunteers 11 years to scan and log into the organization's database.
The plants of genus Balanophora have been recorded in the Compendium of Materia Medica and were called 'Gecaihua' or 'Geru' [3, 5, 6].
These are among the new entries in the "Guinness World Records 2012", an annual compendium of trivia released on September 15th.Created in Britain in 1955, the first edition, then known as the "Guinness Book of Records", was a marketing tool: a compilation of interesting facts distributed to pub landlords to promote Guinness, an Irish drink.
