* Philo regards number two as the number of schism, of that which has been created, of death (" De Opificio Mundi, § 9 ; " De Allegoriis Legum ," i. 2 ; " De Somaniis ," ii. 10 ).

* Four is potentially what the number ten actually is, the perfect number (" De Opificio Mundi ," §§ 15, 16 11, etc.

* Five is the number of the senses and of sensibility (" De Opificio Mundi ," § 20, etc.

* Seven has the most various and marvelous attributes (" De Opificio Mundi ," §§ 30-43 et seq.

" He seems to have found this conception in the Bible ( Gen. i. 2 ) in the image of the spirit of God hovering over the waters (" De Opificio Mundi ," § 2 ).

Philo is known for being the first author to use the term archetype in his writings with the meaning of " the image of God in mankind " (" De Opificio Mundi ", 6 ).

It is the highest, the real divine gift that has been infused into man from without (" De Opificio Mundi ", i. 15 ; " De Eo Quod Deterius Potiori Insidiatur ", i. 206 ); it is the masculine nature of the soul.

Philo wrote a systematic work on Moses and his laws, which was prefaced by the treatise " De Opificio Mundi ," which in the present editions precedes " De Allegoriis Legum ," book i ( comp.

The Creation is, according to Philo, the basis for the Mosaic legislation, which is in complete harmony with nature (" De Opificio Mundi ," § 1 1 ).

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480 ), as he repeatedly uses the myth of double man allegorically in his interpretation of Scripture (" De Opificio Mundi ," 24 ; " De Allegoriis Legum ," ii.

To the Greeks, this arrangement was both a logical and philosophical necessity, and Philo-following his Hellenic inclinations-emphasizes it strongly in De Opificio:

Augustine of Hippo in De Civitate Dei writes Si fallor, sum (" If I am mistaken, I am ") ( book XI, 26 ), and also anticipates modern refutations of the concept.

Liber vitae meritorum (" Book of Life's Merits " or " Book of the Rewards of Life ") and Liber divinorum operum (" Book of Divine Works ", also known as De operatione Dei, " On God's Activity ") followed.

* De Ira Dei (" On the Wrath of God "), directed against the Stoics and Epicureans, dealing with anthropomorphic deities.

This led to murmuring that the gods of Paganism had taken greater care of the city than that of the Christian God, inspiring St Augustine to write The City of God, alternative title " De Civitate Dei contra Paganos: The City of God against the Pagans ", in which he claimed that whilst the great ' city of Man ' had fallen, Christians were ultimately citizens of the ' city of God.

* Augustine of Hippo publishes the De Civitate Dei, City of God.

Opening text of City of God ( book ) | De Civitate Dei

* Augustine of Hippo, age 59, begins to writes his spiritual book De Civitate Dei ( City of God ) as a reply to the charge that Christianity was responsible for the decline of the Roman Empire.

* Saint Augustine of Hippo, De Civitate Dei IV, 8 ( Latin )

* De origine et auctoritate verbi Dei ( 1550 );

The books origins were a response to Saint Augustine ’ s express desire for a book that would complement his De Civita Dei which is a history focused on the pagan races.

* De aeterno Dei filio.

In response, Ratramnus composed the two-book work On the Predestination of God ( De Praedestinatione Dei ), in which he defended double predestination, while objecting to the notion of predestination to sin.

His great theological work, to modern eyes, is a treatise against the Pelagians, entitled De causa Dei contra Pelagium et de virtute causarum.

* De causa Dei contra Pelagium et de virtute causarum ad suos Mertonenses, libri tres ( In Defense of God Against the Pelagians and On the Power of Causes, in three books ), edited by Henry Savile, London: 1618 ; reprinted at Frankfurt: Minerva, 1964.

* Gordon Leff, Bradwardine and the Pelagians: A Study of His " De Causa Dei " and Its Opponents, Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1957.

Other works that St-Calais gave to the cathedral library were copies of Augustine of Hippo's De Civitae Dei and Confessions ; Gregory the Great's Pastoral Care, Moralia, and Homilies ; and Ambrose's De Poenitentia.

* Brevis explicatio in primum Iohannis caput Short explanation of John 1. published posthumously by Ferenc David in De falsa et vera unius Dei Patri, filii, et spiritus sancti 1568, Alba Iulia.

The impetus for this revival came in the mid 1400's when Leonardo de Candia Pistoia a Byzantine monk, brought in 1460 the Hermetica manuscript and the 14 books called Corpus Hermeticum to the court of Cosimo de ' Medici, ruler of Florence, who later requested the Latin translation by Marsilio Ficino, a member of the de ' Medici's court, who published a collection of thirteen tractates in 1471, as De potestate et sapientia Dei.

That the depredations of the ruling classes were mostly responsible for the uprising of the bagaudae was not lost on the fifth-century writer of historicised polemic, Salvian ; setting himself in the treatise De gubernatione Dei the task of proving God's constant guidance, he declares in book iii that the misery of the Roman world is all due to the neglect of God's commandments and the terrible sins of every class of society.

He soon began working on De cultu et amore Dei, or The Worship and Love of God.

* 1745, ( The Worship and Love of God ) Latin: De Cultu et Amore Dei, 2 volumes

Salvian continued his friendly intercourse with both father and sons long after the latter had left his care ; it was to Salonius ( then a bishop ) that he wrote his explanatory letter just after the publication of his treatise Ad ecclesiam ; and to the same prelate a few years later he dedicated his great work, the De gubernatione Dei (" The Government of God ").

Of Salvian's writings there are still extant two treatises, entitled respectively De gubernatione Dei ( more correctly De praesenti judicio ) and Ad ecclesiam, and a series of nine letters.

Painting of St. Ambrose with whip and book in the church of San Giuseppe alla Lungara, RomeAn address by Ambrose to Christian young people warns them against intermarriage with Jews (" De Abrahamo ," ix.

Andreas Capellanus ( Capellanus meaning " chaplain ") was the 12th-century author of a treatise commonly known as De amore (" About Love "), and often known in English, somewhat misleadingly, as The Art of Courtly Love, though its realistic, somewhat cynical tone suggests that it is in some measure an antidote to courtly love.

In 2005, De Jeugd van Tegenwoordig (" The youth of today ") were successful with " Watskeburt?!

A tumultuous year at the Bauhaus, 1922 also saw the move of Dutch painter Theo van Doesburg to Weimar to promote De Stijl (" The Style "), and a visit to the Bauhaus by Russian Constructivist artist and architect El Lissitzky.

The species name troglodytes, Greek for " cave-dweller ", was coined by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach in his book De generis humani varietate nativa liber (" on the natural varieties of the human genus ") published in 1776, This book was based on his dissertation presented one year before ( it had a date 16 Sep 1775 printed on its title page ) to the University of Göttingen for internal use only, thus the dissertation did not meet the conditions for published work in the sense of zoological nomenclature.

The work De nuptiis Mercurii et Philologiae (" About the wedding of Mercury and Philologia ") written by Martianus Capella ( 4th-5th century ) was very influential on the successive medieval encyclopedias.

Nicolas de Condorcet was especially noted for his advocacy, in his articles published in the Journal de la Société de 1789, and by publishing De l ' admission des femmes au droit de cité (" For the Admission to the Rights of Citizenship For Women ") in 1790.

The first recorded use of incunabula as a printing term is in a Latin pamphlet by Bernhard von Mallinckrodt, De ortu et progressu artis typographicae (" Of the rise and progress of the typographic art ", Cologne, 1639 ), which includes the phrase prima typographicae incunabula, " the first infancy of printing ", a term to which he arbitrarily set an end, 1500, which still stands as a convention.

De pictura (" On Painting ") contained the first scientific study of perspective.

* Apart from his treatises on the arts, Alberti also wrote: Philodoxus (" Lover of Glory ", 1424 ), De commodis litterarum atque incommodis (" On the Advantages and Disadvantages of Literary Studies ", 1429 ), Intercoenales (" Table Talk ", c. 1429 ), Della famiglia (" On the Family ", begun 1432 ) Vita S. Potiti (" Life of St. Potitus ", 1433 ), De iure ( On Law, 1437 ), Theogenius (" The Origin of the Gods ", c. 1440 ), Profugorium ab aerumna (" Refuge from Mental Anguish ",), Momus ( 1450 ) and De Iciarchia (" On the Prince ", 1468 ). These and other works were translated and printed in Venice by the humanist Cosimo Bartoli in 1586.