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The Roman author Pliny the Elder (died 79 AD) was the first to present all natural phenomena according to a predetermined order in encyclopaedic form.
 
The world chronicle of the Carthusian monk Werner Rolevinck of Cologne extends from the creation to the 15th c., the present of the author, and is a combination of biblical and secular chronicles.

This is also the case in respect of the world chronicle of the Nürnberg physician Hartmann Schedel, which, with its 1,800 woodcuts, is the most lavishly illustrated book dating to the early printing period. It also became well-known in a German translation, and still arouses scholarly interest today.

The “Summa Theologica” of the church father Thomas of Aquinas, a 13th c. Dominican monk, has remained a work of extraordinary influence on philosophical and theological scholarship to this day. It presents a view of the world which owes much to the Greek philosopher Aristoteles.