Movies were already being made elsewhere, as, here, by Thomas Edison; but, as this compendium of texts on the Lumière brothers makes clear, among their great innovations was the portability of their combination camera and projector, accounting for the documentary diversity of the short films with which they launched their invention.
In 1928, mystic, lecturer, and occult book-collector Manly P. Hall published The Secret Teachings of All Ages, a dazzling encyclopedic compendium of ancient texts, esoteric traditions, and musings on metaphysics that became an instant bestseller, in part because of the incredibly detailed and visually striking illustrations by J. Augustus Knapp.
The major campus network resource was Michigan State University's Electronic Reference Library, a compendium of electronic texts, journals and databases.
A prime example is Brian Cox Wonderss of the Universe, a compendium of video and text programming that was published on the App Store in 2012.
His most famous work is the Summulae de dialectica (Compendium of Dialectic), a text of astonishing breadth and originality aimed at redeeming the older tradition of Aristotelian logic using the newer, terminist logic of 'moderns' such as Peter of Spain and William of Ockham.
Tempted as I am to copy and paste the email into this blog, it would ruin my retirement plan to publish a compendium of every email and text message she has ever sent me.
Ramón Llull produced an Arabic compendium of al-Ghazālī's text, which he himself translated into Latin (Lohr 1965).
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The novelist John Fowles wrote the accompanying text for this compendium of shipwreck photographs by the Gibson family of photographers.
Other works include a compendium of the philosophy of Aristotle, of which only the book on logic has been published; a paraphrase of texts from Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite; and a series of exercises in rhetoric.
A wildly diverse compendium of poems, chants, myths, gospels, pagan documents, and spiritual instructions, the texts are distinct evidence of fierce theological debate and of an alternative tradition within early Christianity — a kind of mystical variant, much like the Zen tradition in Buddhism, Kabbalah in Judaism, Sufism in Islam.
