The further circumstances of Syrianus' life are almost entirely unknown, and of his copious philosophical work only the important commentary on books Beta (III), Gamma (IV), and Mu and Nu (XIII XIV) of Aristotle's Metaphysics survives.
They are extant in the Arabic original or Hebrew translations or both, and some of these translations serve in place of the presumably lost Arabic originals; e.g., the important commentaries on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics and on Plato's Republic.
As he was swiping a copper shade across his lids, Mayer added some important commentary: "Now this is where guys get it wrong.
In this issue, Professor Karen Facey and colleagues publish an important Commentary (p 224) on the use of positron emission tomography (PET) imaging in cancer management.
Comedy is extremely important commentary, vital to our lives, and paramount to all this, its practice is incredibly hard to master.
Wang also wrote an important commentary on the Huangdi neijing, but his labours over the pulse are what raised him to the highest rank of Chinese physician.
His theological works include an important commentary on Peter Lombard's Sentences, the Quaestiones quodlibetae ("Miscellaneous Questions"), and a collection of tracts on disputed questions and political theories (one of which suggested a universal monarchy headed by the pope).
And while African-American writers often did not have the same access to writing that their white contemporaries enjoyed, newspapers like The New York Anglo-African provided important commentary on the political landscape alongside poetry and fiction.
For astronomy, he wrote an important commentary on the standard introduction, John of Sacrobosco's Sphere (1495).
Finally, Vasubandhu is credited with an important commentary on Asaṅga's Yogācāra summa, the Commentary on the Summary of the Great Vehicle (Mahāyānasaṃgrahabhāṣya).
