* a treatise against Hierocles ( a Roman governor ), in which Eusebius combated the former's glorification of Apollonius of Tyana in a work entitled A Truth-loving Discourse ( Greek: Philalethes logos );

Galen's theory of the physiology of the circulatory system endured until 1628, when William Harvey published his treatise entitled De motu cordis, in which he established that blood circulates, with the heart acting as a pump.

Galen saw himself as both a physician and a philosopher, as he wrote in his treatise entitled That the Best Physician is also a Philosopher.

This was followed by an elementary treatise on astronomy entitled Anleitung zur Kenntniss des gestirnten Himmels ( 1768, 10th ed.

Wilson's final plans for the League were strongly influenced by South African Prime Minister Jan Smuts, who in 1918 had published a treatise entitled The League of Nations: A Practical Suggestion.

Some hundred years later, Euclid wrote a treatise entitled Optics where he linked vision to geometry, creating geometrical optics.

In addition, Polybius wrote an extensive treatise entitled Tactics, which may have detailed Roman and Greek military tactics.

In the early 15th century, Italian architect Leon Battista Alberti wrote a treatise entitled De Re aedificatoria which theorized methods of building fortifications capable of withstanding the new guns.

According to the great treatise of the 1760s by William Blackstone entitled Commentaries on the Laws of England:

The treatise entitled De duplici martyrio ad Fortunatum and attributed to Cyprian was not only published by Erasmus, but probably also composed by him.

Al-Kindi ( Alkindus ) ( 801 – 873 ) also wrote a treatise on dream interpretation entitled On Sleep and Dreams.

He wrote an elaborate treatise of ophthalmology entitled Nur al-Uyun wa Jami al-Funun ( light of the eyes and collection of rules ).

His most important treatise, that by which he has a place in the history of philosophy, is entitled Sefer Milhamot Ha-Shem, (" The Wars of the Lord "), and occupied twelve years in composition ( 1317 – 1329 ).

Florence, 1750 ); to Menahem Lonzano, who composed a treatise on the Masorah of the Pentateuch entitled " Or Torah "; and in particular to Jedidiah Norzi, whose " Minḥat Shai " contains valuable Masoretic notes based on a careful study of manuscripts.

Fisher has also been named, though without any real proof, as the true author of the royal treatise against Martin Luther entitled " Assertio septem sacramentorum " ( The Defense of the Seven Sacraments ), published in 1521, which won for King Henry VIII the title " Fidei Defensor " ( Defender of the Faith ).

He was a follower of the school of Aristarchus, and wrote a treatise on Aristarchus ' edition of Homer entitled On Aristarchus ' recension (), fragments of which are preserved in the Venetus A manuscript of the Iliad.

Seyyed Hossein Nasr, after examining the philosophical works of Khayyám, maintains that it is really reductive to just look at the poems ( which are sometimes doubtful ) to establish his personal views about God or religion ; in fact, he even wrote a treatise entitled " al-Khutbat al-gharrå ˘" ( The Splendid Sermon ) on the praise of God, where he holds orthodox views, agreeing with Avicenna on Divine Unity.

No mention of Euchre is made in the treatise by Samuel Weller Singer, entitled Researches into the History of Playing Cards, 4to., London, 1816 ; nor in any of the English editions of Hoyle's Games ; nor in Captain Crawley's Handy Book of Games for Gentlemen, 12mo., London, 1860.

In this treatise, entitled De Alpibus commentarius, he collected all that the classical authors had written on the Alps, adding a good deal of material collected from his friends and correspondents.

Perhaps the most controversial and important work of the time period was a treatise printed in Nuremberg, entitled De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium: in it, the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus removed the Earth from its privileged position in the universe, which had far-reaching effects, not only in science, but in literature and its approach to humanity, hierarchy, and truth.

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

Besides his translations of Aristotle's Metaphysics and Xenophon's Memorabilia, his most important work is a treatise directed against George of Trebizond, a vehement Aristotelian who had written a polemic against Plato, which was entitled In Calumniatorem Platonis (" Against the Slanderer of Plato ").

In 1641 Wilkins published an anonymous treatise entitled Mercury, or The Secret and Swift Messenger.

His chief treatise is entitled Difficulties and Solutions of First Principles ().

In 1570 he wrote a commentary on the Pentateuch titled " Yede Mosheh " ( The Hands of Moses ); also an exposition of the Talmudical treatise " Abot " ( Ethics of the Fathers ), published in Salonica in 1563 ; and a collection of sermons delivered upon various occasions, particularly funeral orations, entitled " Meammeẓ Koaḥ " ( Re-enforcing Strength ).

He used his time in Bourg to research mathematics, producing Considérations sur la théorie mathématique de jeu ( 1802 ; “ Considerations on the Mathematical Theory of Games ”), a treatise on mathematical probability that he sent to the Paris Academy of Sciences in 1803.

An exception to this general tendency is his Latin treatise " De falconibus " ( later inserted in the larger work, De Animalibus, as book 23, chapter 40 ), in which he displays impressive actual knowledge of a ) the differences between the birds of prey and the other kinds of birds ; b ) the different kinds of falcons ; c ) the way of preparing them for the hunt ; and d ) the cures for sick and wounded falcons.

In this treatise, Alexander opposes the Stoic view that divine providence extends to all aspects of the world ; he regards this idea as unworthy of the gods.

# De Sacramentis Corporis et Sanguinis Domini ; a treatise, in three books, against the Berengarian heresy, highly commended by Peter of Cluny and Erasmus.

Among the letters of Julian are two ( 29 and 30 ) addressed to Alypius ; one inviting him to Rome, the other thanking him for a geographical treatise, which no longer exists.

He also translated many homilies of St. John Chrysostom ; the treatise of the Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite on the celestial hierarchy ; St.

Basil's treatise on virginity ; thirty nine discourses of St. Ephrem the Syrian, and many other works of the Fathers and writers of the Greek Church.

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

The printed edition ( Presburg, 1838 ), prepared by M. L. Bislichis, contains: ( 1 ) Preface ; ( 2 ) a treatise of eighteen chapters on the incorporeality of God ; ( 3 ) correspondence ; ( 4 ) a treatise, called Sefer ha-Yarḥi, included also in letter 58 ; ( 5 ) a defense of The Guide and its author by Shem-Tob Palquera ( Grätz, Gesch.

In the preface, Abba Mari explains his object in collecting the correspondence ; and in the treatise which follows he shows that the study of philosophy, useful in itself as a help toward the acquisition of the knowledge of God, requires great caution, lest we be misled by the Aristotelian philosophy or its false interpretation, as regards the principles of creation ex nihilo and divine individual providence.

Following Desargues ' thinking, the sixteen-year-old Pascal produced, as a means of proof, a short treatise on what was called the " Mystic Hexagram ", Essai pour les coniques (" Essay on Conics ") and sent it — his first serious work of mathematics — to Père Mersenne in Paris ; it is known still today as Pascal's theorem.

* Weymouth, F. Marten, " Drum armatures and commutators ( theory and practice ): a complete treatise on the theory and construction of drum winding, and of commutators for closed-coil armatures, together with a full résumé of some of the principal points involved in their design ; and an exposition of armature reactions and sparking ".

* Phaenomena, a treatise on spherical astronomy, survives in Greek ; it is quite similar to On the Moving Sphere by Autolycus of Pitane, who flourished around 310 BC.

* A polemical treatise against Marcellus of Ancyra, the Against Marcellus, dating from about 337 ;

The treatise is not a compendium of all that the Hellenistic mathematicians knew at the time about geometry ; Euclid himself wrote eight more advanced books on geometry.

The next traditional step then was to accept it as the authoritative textbook of the Christian faith just as one would accept a treatise on any earthly `` science '', and I submitted to its conditions according to Christ's invitation and promise that, `` If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself '' ( John 7: 17 ).

In 1827 Ampère published his magnum opus, Mémoire sur la théorie mathématique des phénomènes électrodynamiques uniquement déduite de l ’ experience ( Memoir on the Mathematical Theory of Electrodynamic Phenomena, Uniquely Deduced from Experience ), the work that coined the name of his new science, electrodynamics, and became known ever after as its founding treatise.

The Anticlaudianus, a treatise on morals as allegory, the form of which recalls the pamphlet of Claudian against Rufinus, is agreeably versified and relatively pure in its latinity.

) that gives his treatise its apparent originality.

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 spite of its academic nature, the copious details to be found in the treatise rendered it of the highest value to the army organizers of the 16th century, who were engaged in fashioning a regular military system out of the semi-feudal systems of previous generations.

that the real author was Herennius Philo of Byblus, who was born during the reign of Nero and lived till the reign of Hadrian, and that the treatise in its present form is a revision prepared by a later Byzantine editor, whose name may have been Ammonius.

For example, a 1978 environmental law treatise reprinted the entire text of Rule 23 and mentioned " class actions " 14 times in its index.

" Ponet's treatise comes first in a new wave of anti-monarchical writings … It has never been assessed at its true importance, for it antedates by several years those more brilliantly expressed but less radical Huguenot writings which have usually been taken to represent the Tyrannicide-theories of the Reformation ".

La Vérité de la Religion Chrétienne Réformée ( 1717 ) was a controversial treatise which in its four parts attacks the characteristic doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church ; it was translated into English, for the use of the Roman Catholics of his diocese of Dromore, by Dr. Ralph Lambert, afterwards bishop of Meath.

It was afterward rendered into Latin by Jacob Christmann ( Frankfort, 1590 ) under the title of Elementa Astronomica, which, in its turn, may have given rise to the Hebrew title of the treatise Yesodot ha-Teḳunah, which is undoubtedly recent.

This treatise ( Della pittura ) was also known in Latin as De Pictura, and it relied in its scientific content on classical optics in determining perspective as a geometric instrument of artistic and architectural representation.

As a treatise, its primary intellectual contribution to the history of political thought is the fundamental break between political Realism and political Idealism, because The Prince is a manual to acquiring and keeping political power.

* A double palimpsest, in which a text of St John Chrysostom, in Syriac, of the ninth or 10th century, covers a Latin grammatical treatise in a cursive hand of the 6th century, which in its turn covers the Latin annals of the historian Granius Licinianus, of the 5th century, British Museum.

He wrote an extended treatise ( 21 July 447 ), against the sect, examining its false teaching in detail, and calling for a Spanish general council to investigate whether it had any adherents in the episcopate, but this was prevented by the political circumstances of Spain.

This treatise shows that the heart, its vessels, liver, spleen, kidneys, hypothalamus, uterus and bladder were recognized, and that the blood vessels were known to emanate from the heart.

One of the greatest achievements of Hippocrates was that he was the first to discover the tricuspid valve of the heart and its function which he documented in the treatise On the Heart in the Hippocratic Corpus.

After the first chapter, which simply outlines past ideas and accepted rules regarding the heart and lungs, Harvey moves on to a fundamental premise to his treatise, stating that it was extremely important to study the heart when it was active in order to truly comprehend its true movement ; a task which even he found of great difficulty, as he says:

His treatise De tyranno (" On the tyrant ") published in 1400, has, most likely, its model in Visconti, although in it Salutati ( despite being a republican ) remains a supporter of the providential universal monarch already put forward by Dante.

According to the same tradition, these 60 years are said to have been so symmetrically apportioned that each treatise required six months for the study of its Mishnah and the redaction of the traditional expositions of the same ( Gemara ), thus aggregating 30 years for the 60 treatises.

The term amour courtois (" courtly love ") was given its original definition by Gaston Paris in his 1883 article " Études sur les romans de la Table Ronde: Lancelot du Lac, II: Le conte de la charrette ", a treatise inspecting Chretien de Troyes's Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart ( 1177 ).

The term epidemic derives from a term first attributed to Homer's Odyssey, which later took its medical meaning from a treatise by Hippocrates, Epidemics.