This survey of 210 objects spans a little more than two centuries and includes both production work as well as one-of-a-kind pieces.

Using few technical terms and a witty style, this survey of the development of Western rationality spans the 2,000 or so years between Aristotle and Descartes (a second volume is planned).

In a survey spanning more than 40 years, Martin Schreiber traces his development as an abstract artist who began as a painter but eventually embraced sculpture as well.

Mr. Indiana is a central Pop Art figure; this survey selectively spans his career.

Curated by the director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Madeleine Grynsztejn (then Elise S. Haas Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture at SFMOMA), in close collaboration with the artist, the major survey spanned the artist's career from 1993 and 2007.

At the same time the New Haven Chorale will be conducted by its music director, Paul Mueller, in Battell Chapel; his survey will span five centuries of English music, from "Spem in Alium," a motet by the 16th-century master Thomas Tallis, through works by Benjamin Britten (787-1887).

In 2006, MacInTouch published an independent analysis of Apple Mac notebook reliability based on a survey of over 10,000 notebook spanning 41 models .

This survey of Mr. Grooms's career spans those years, from 1959 through 2005.

A monumental survey in pictures and text of tribal rituals, rites and ceremonies across the entire continent, spanning the human life cycle, birth, puberty, courtship and marriage, illness and death.