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 about 20 BC, the Roman architect and engineer Vitruvius wrote a treatise on the acoustic properties of theatres including discussion of interference, echoes, and reverberation — the beginnings of architectural acoustics.

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.

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.

Pierre-Simon Laplace and Antoine Lavoisier, in their 1780 treatise on heat, arrived at values ranging from 1, 500 to 3, 000 below the freezing-point of water, and thought that in any case it must be at least 600 below.

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.

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

His works include a treatise on the Holy Eucharist, one on the Procession of the Holy Spirit, many lives of saints, as well as a history of his term as Prior General of the Camaldolese.

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 decimal point notation was introduced by Sind ibn Ali, he also wrote the earliest treatise on Arabic numerals.

Engraving by Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze | Mme Lavoisier in the 1780s taken from Traité élémentaire de chimie ( Elementary treatise on chemistry )

Agathocles was cited as from the lowest, most abject condition of life and as an example of “ those who by their crimes come to be princes ” in Chapter VIII of Niccolò Machiavelli ’ s treatise on politics, The Prince ( 1513 ).

A Hebrew treatise on computational astronomy dated to AD 1378 / 79, alludes to the Atlantis myth in a discussion concerning the determination of zero points for the calculation of longitude:

However, in 1513 and 1514 Dürer created his three most famous engravings: Knight, Death, and the Devil ( 1513, probably based on Erasmus's treatise Enichiridion militis Christiani ), St. Jerome in his Study, and the much-debated Melencolia I ( both 1514 ).

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.

Aelian's military treatise in fifty-three chapters on the tactics of the Greeks, titled On tactical arrays of the Greeks (), is dedicated to the Emperor Hadrian, though this is probably a mistake for Trajan, and the date 106 has been assigned to it.

The author claims to have consulted all the best authorities, the most important of which was a lost treatise on the subject by Polybius.

From that work we learn that the higher education of the youth of Baghdad consisted principally in a minute and careful study of the rules and principles of grammar, and in their committing to memory the whole of the Qur ' an, a treatise or two on philology and jurisprudence, and the choicest Arabic poetry.

His works on ascetism, include the aforementioned Life of St. Anthony, as well as a Discourse on Virginity, a short work on Love and Self-Control, and a treatise On Sickness and Health which is only preserved in fragments.

The composer himself claimed that he inherited the talent for music from his mother, whose nephew Joachim Friedrich was Kantor at Verden ( Telemann would later publish a treatise by Joachim Friedrich's son, who became an organist ).

He became more interested in music theory and completed a treatise on the subject, Neues musicalisches System ( 1742 / 3, published 1752 ).

These advances would lead Hector Berlioz to write a landmark book on instrumentation, which was the first systematic treatise on the use of instrumental sound as an expressive element of music.

While in Berlin Bach placed himself in the forefront of European music with a treatise, Versuch über die wahre Art das Clavier zu spielen ( An Essay on the True Art of Playing Keyboard Instruments ).

He is regarded as the inventor of modern musical notation ( staff notation ) that replaced neumatic notation ; his text, the Micrologus, was the second-most-widely distributed treatise on music in the Middle Ages ( after the writings of Boethius ).

Although Quantz wrote many pieces of music, mainly for the flute ( including around 300 flute concertos and 200 + sonatas ), he is best known today as the author of Versuch einer Anweisung die Flöte traversiere zu spielen ( 1752 ) ( titled On Playing the Flute in English ), a treatise on traverso flute playing.

* Aristoxenus, a Greek peripatetic philosopher, and writer on music and rhythm, and a pupil of Aristotle, writes a treatise on music called the " Elements of Harmony ".

Most of his writings, which dealt with philosophy, ethics and music, have been lost, but one musical treatise, Elements of Harmony, survives incomplete, as well as some fragments concerning rhythm and meter.

An ancient system of Indian origin, dating from the 4th or 3rd century BC, in the Natya Shastra, a theoretical treatise on music and dramaturgy, by Bharata Muni, divides instruments into four main classification groups: instruments where the sound is produced by vibrating strings ( tata vadya, " stretched instruments "); instruments where the sound is produced by vibrating columns of air ( susira vadya, " hollow instruments "); percussion instruments made of wood or metal ( ghana vadya, " solid instruments "); and percussion instruments with skin heads, or drums ( avanaddha vadya ," covereed instruments ").

However, these categories were not new ; they derive from the Natya Sastra, a roughly two-thousand-year-old Indian theoretical treatise on music and dramaturgy.

In his multi-volume music theory treatise Traité de rythme, de couleur, et d ' ornithologie (" Treatise of Rhythm, Colour and Birdsong "), Messiaen wrote descriptions of the colours of certain chords.

Regino's earliest work was Epistola de harmonica institutione, a treatise on music which he wrote in the form of a letter to Archbishop Radbod.

He wrote over a hundred lute songs ; masques for dancing, and an authoritative technical treatise on music.

The Turco-Persian psychologist and music theorist al-Farabi ( 872 – 950 ), known as " Alpharabius " in Europe, dealt with music therapy in his treatise Meanings of the Intellect, where he discussed the therapeutic effects of music on the soul.

Bharat's Natyashastra was the first treatise laying down fundamental principles of dance, music, and drama.

Very little of what Machado wrote about him has been verified by any other source, except the date of publication ( 1561 ) of a music theory treatise at Venice.

In the 1845 edition of his treatise La musique mise a la porte de tout le monde, he describes the word “ fantastique ” saying that “ this word has even slid into music.

The 11th century Arabic psychologist, Ibn al-Haytham ( Alhazen ), wrote the Treatise on the Influence of Melodies on the Souls of Animals, the early treatise dealing with the effects of music on animals.

In the treatise, he demonstrates how a camel's pace could be hastened or retarded with the use of music, and shows other examples of how music can affect animal behavior, experimenting with horses, birds and reptiles.

Pascal was an important mathematician, helping create two major new areas of research: he wrote a significant treatise on the subject of projective geometry at the age of sixteen, and later corresponded with Pierre de Fermat on probability theory, strongly influencing the development of modern economics and social science.

* 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 ".

Hilbert unified the field of algebraic number theory with his 1897 treatise Zahlbericht ( literally " report on numbers ").

Notable developments in this century include the work of Georg Ohm, who in 1827 quantified the relationship between the electric current and potential difference in a conductor, Michael Faraday, the discoverer of electromagnetic induction in 1831, and James Clerk Maxwell, who in 1873 published a unified theory of electricity and magnetism in his treatise Electricity and Magnetism.

* Euclid's Elements, the mathematical treatise on geometry and number theory

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.

In 1884 a young German mathematician, Friedrich Engel, came to work with Lie on a systematic treatise to expose his theory of continuous groups.

In his treatise De pictura ( 1435 ) he explains the theory, of the accumulation of people, animals, and buildings, which create harmony amongst each other, and " hold the eye of the learned and unlearned spectator for a long while with a certain sense of pleasure and emotion ".

Ptolemy, in his treatise Optics, held an extramission-intromission theory of vision: the rays ( or flux ) from the eye formed a cone, the vertex being within the eye, and the base defining the visual field.

Pantheism was popularized in the modern era as both a theology and philosophy based on the work of Baruch Spinoza, whose treatise, Ethics, was an answer to Descartes ' famous dualist theory that the body and spirit are separate.

Her brilliant theorem is known only because of the footnote in Legendre's treatise on number theory, where he used it to prove Fermat's Last Theorem for p = 5 ( see Correspondence with Legendre ).

Shortly before his death, Gould published a long treatise recapitulating his version of modern evolutionary theory: The Structure of Evolutionary Theory ( 2002 ).

He wrote a significant treatise on the subject of projective geometry at the age of sixteen, and later corresponded with Pierre de Fermat ( 1601 – 1665 ) on probability theory, strongly influencing the development of modern economics and social science.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau ( 1712 – 1778 ), in his influential 1762 treatise The Social Contract, outlined a different version of social contract theory, as the foundations of political rights based on unlimited popular sovereignty.

He also promoted science and arts ; Maurice is also the traditional author of the military treatise Strategikon which is praised in military circles as the only sophisticated combined arms theory until World War II.

Diaconis left home at 14 to travel with sleight-of-hand legend Dai Vernon, and dropped out of high school, promising himself that he would return one day so that he could learn all of the math necessary to read William Feller's famous two-volume treatise on probability theory, An Introduction to Probability Theory and Its Applications.

* books. google. com An elementary treatise on descriptive geometry, with a theory of shadows and of perspective ( Weale, London, 1851 ).

* Euclid's Elements, a 13-book mathematical treatise written by Euclid, that includes both geometry and number theory

W. L. Warren advances the theory that either Walter or Geoffrey Fitz Peter, instead of Ranulf Glanvill, was the author of Tractatus de legibus et consuetudinibus regni Angliae, a legal treatise on the laws and constitutions of the English.

This is partly because certain concepts which are now important, such as the machinery of category theory, are not covered in the treatise.

His enormous treatise is considered " delightful " by critics ; it examines in encyclopaedic detail the ubiquitous Jacobean malady, melancholy, supposedly caused by an excess of " black bile ," according to the humor theory fashionable at the time.