In addition to discussions about a wide variety of topics in natural science, a direct result of certain questions posed by Beeckman compelled Descartes to write the Compendium Musicae.
Indeed Llewelyn Davies (as the firm was still known until recently) wrote the Urban Design Compendium, the government's official guide to town planning.
The novelist John Fowles wrote the accompanying text for this compendium of shipwreck photographs by the Gibson family of photographers.
After the war, he wrote A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion – a complete record of every regiment formed under the Union Army, their histories, and the battles they fought in – taking forty years to compile.
In the fourth century, Vasubandhu undertook a comprehensive survey of the Sarvāstivāda School's thought, and wrote a compendium, Treasury of Knowledge, (Abhidharmakośakārikā AbhiDK; Mngon pa ku 1b 25a) with his own Commentary on the Treasury of Knowledge (Abhidharmakośabhāṣya AbhiDKB, Mngon pa ku 26b 258a).
At age eight he wrote a compendium of universal history and also "The Battle of Cheviot," a romantic narrative poem in the style of Sir Walter Scott.
In 1319 he wrote his popular Compendium... totius Scripturae ("Compendium... of the Whole Scripture").
As we saw above, in addition to commenting on Aristotle's Organon, he wrote a logical compendium, the Summulae de dialectica, ostensibly as a commentary on Peter of Spain's Summulae logicales, an influential terminist textbook written a century earlier.
"It shocks me how people continue in this type of reckless behavior, even in prominent leadership positions, and don't seem to think there's going to be a consequence," said Wesley O. Hagood, who wrote a compendium of presidential dalliances.
