On the Soul ( De anima ) is a treatise on the soul written along the lines suggested by Aristotle in his own De anima.

He was also an accomplished astronomer ; he lectured on Ptolemy and is known to have written a treatise on the astrolabe.

It was in Bologna that Dürer was taught ( possibly by Luca Pacioli or Bramante ) the principles of linear perspective, and evidently became familiar with the ' costruzione legittima ' in a written description of these principles found only, at this time, in the unpublished treatise of Piero della Francesca.

An early professed empiricist, Thomas Hobbes, known as an eccentric denizen of the court of Charles II of England ( an " old bear "), published in 1651 Leviathan, a political treatise written during the English civil war, containing an early manifesto in English of rationalism.

The next definitive historical treatise on the common law is Commentaries on the Laws of England, written by Sir William Blackstone and first published in 1765-1769.

Central to classical liberal ideology was their interpretation of John Locke's Second treatise of government and " A letter concerning toleration ", which had been written as a defence of the Glorious Revolution of 1688.

From the mid-fourth century BC onwards, evidence of the Greek use of crossbows becomes more dense and varied: Arrow firing machines ( katapeltai ) are briefly mentioned by Aeneas Tacticus in his treatise on siegecraft written around 350 BC.

From the mid-fourth century BC onwards, evidence of the Greek use of arrow-shooting machines becomes more dense and varied: Arrow firing machines ( katapaltai ) are briefly mentioned by Aeneas Tacticus in his treatise on siegecraft written around 350 BC.

The Zohar, which was written in the 13th century, is generally held as the most important esoteric treatise of the Jews.

In the “ Querelle du Roman de la Rose ,” she responded to Jean de Montreuil, who had written her a treatise defending the misogynist sentiments in the Romance of the Rose.

These three works complement each other in such a way that it has been suggested that they are remnants of a single treatise on mechanics written by Euclid.

* Mizan — a comprehensive treatise on the contents of Islam written by Javed Ahmed Ghamidi

* The Snouters: Form and Life of the Rhinogrades, by Zoologist Gerolf Steiner, purports to be a non-fictional natural history study, and was written, published, and presented as if it were an actual scientific treatise documenting the recently-extinct indigenous wildlife (" Rhinogradentia ") of the equally fictitious Hi-yi-yi archipelago.

The ancient Greek horse trainer Xenophon mentioned nothing about horseshoes in his treatise on the care of military cavalry, nor did the Digesta Artis Mulomedicinae by Vegetius Renatus, written in the 4th or 5th century AD, mention nailed-on shoes, though he accurately enumerated everything connected with an army forge in the time.

In 1931 he admitted: " In youth I scarcely did any letter-writing — thanking anybody for a present was so much of an ordeal that I would rather have written a two hundred fifty-line pastoral or a twenty-page treatise on the rings of Saturn.

They were mentioned by Julius Caesar in his treatise, The Gallic Wars, and by 391 BC, they were written about by Roman Consul, Quintus Aurelius Symmachus, who received seven of them, " canes Scotici ", as a gift to be used for fighting lions, bears, that in his words, " all Rome viewed with wonder ".

Machiavelli is most famous for a short political treatise, The Prince, written in 1513 but not published until 1532, five years after his death.

In the opening section of the Passions of the Soul, a treatise on the Early Modern version of what are now commonly called emotions, Descartes goes so far as to assert that he will write on this topic " as if no one had written on these matters before ".

A treatise on music theory and the aesthetics of music written for Descartes's early collaborator, Isaac Beeckman.

In 1665 he almost quarrelled with his fellow-Platonist, Henry More, because the latter had written an ethical work which Cudworth feared would interfere with his own long-contemplated treatise on the same subject.

It is not exactly known when these treatise were written, but both works would seem to date before 1162.

* Mizan – a comprehensive treatise on the contents of Islam written by Javed Ahmad Ghamidi

Bury, however, have noted parallels between them: If, instead of a history, Thucydides had written an analytical treatise on politics, with particular reference to the Athenian empire, it is probable that.

Humboldt's plans for reforming the Prussian school system were not published until long after his death, together with his fragment of a treatise on the ' Theory of Human Education ', which had been written in about 1793.

In addition, a short treatise on the Constitution of Athens exists that was once thought to be by Xenophon, but which was probably written when Xenophon was about five years old.

The main focus of the publication house will be to publish textbooks and thesis written by research scholars and authors from all universities.

graduate from Colorado who had written his thesis on exception handling facilities in algorithmic languages.

Murray's Witch Cult in Western Europe 1921, written during a period she was unable to do field work in Egypt, laid out the essential elements of her thesis that a common pattern of underground pagan resistance to the Christian Church existed across Europe.

Recorded between 1987 and 1988, it was submitted in July of that year, accompanied by a written thesis.

" His thesis defense may have been written in December 1616.

He did supervise the doctoral thesis on mathematical economics written by Irving Fisher in 1891, and after Gibbs's death Fisher financed the publication of his Collected Works.

This was the subject of a French doctoral thesis written by Zygmunt Janiszewski.

Lakoff has explored some of the implications of the embodied mind thesis in a number of books, most written with coauthors.

His thesis, titled Espaces fibrés en sphères et carrés de Steenrod ( Sphere bundles and Steenrod squares ), was written under the direction of Henri Cartan.

Research forerunners of today's location-based services are the infrared Active Badge system ( 1989 – 1993 ), The Ericsson-Europolitan GSM LBS trial ran during 1995 by Jörgen Johansson and the master thesis written by Nokia employee Timo Rantalainen, in 1994.

For most students Plan culminates in a written thesis, although art and science students may pursue other projects.

There are some very overt references to it, as when the protagonist explains the thesis paper he has just written on The Catcher in The Rye to the family who takes him in for the night.

Sketchpad ( aka Robot Draftsman ) was a revolutionary computer program written by Ivan Sutherland in 1963 in the course of his PhD thesis, for which he received the Turing Award in 1988.

His Ph. D. thesis from topological graph theory was written under the guidance of Torrence Parsons.

Expanding upon his thesis in Hitler's War about the lack of a written Führer order for the Holocaust, Irving argued in the 1990s that the absence of such an order meant that there was no Holocaust.

Her senior thesis was written on Czech Communist Zdeněk Fierlinger.

For the next two years attended the Technische Hochschule in Berlin, earning a Doctorate in Engineering for his thesis, written in German, on Geschieb Bewegung, the bedload movement in streams.

* In Slovenia, all Academic degrees awarded after a minimum of 4 years of university studies and a successful defence of a written thesis are considered equivalent to the master's degree.

Sowell has also written a trilogy of books on ideologies and political positions, including A Conflict of Visions where he speaks about the origins of political strife, The Vision of the Anointed, where he compares the conservative / libertarian and liberal / progressive worldviews, The Quest for Cosmic Justice, where, like in many of his other writings, he outlines his thesis of the need for intellectuals, politicians and leaders to fix and perfect the world in utopian, and ultimately he posits, disastrous fashions.

" The text is written so obscurely that you can't figure out exactly what the thesis is ( hence " obscurantisme ") and then when one criticizes it, the author says, " Vous m ' avez mal compris ; vous êtes idiot " " You misunderstood me ; you are an idiot " ( hence " terroriste ").

* Umberto Eco's 2004 novel The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana features a protagonist whose doctoral thesis was written on the Hypnerotomachia.

Private lectureship is conferred on academics who have earned a doctorate ( promotion ) and then have written another thesis for habilitation and given a lecture before the respective department or faculty of a university.

The first Go program was written by Albert Zobrist in 1968 as part of his thesis on pattern recognition.

following was written by obvious critics of Johnson, but is retained rather than deleted, or added to at great length, as evidence of the kinds of attacks that were launched by the journalist and others 60 some years after the master's thesis.

Weil was a young Marxist who had written his doctoral thesis on the practical problems of implementing socialism and was published by Karl Korsch.