The first division into major and minor arts dates back to Leon Battista Alberti's works ( De re aedificatoria, De statua, De pictura ), focusing the importance of intellectual skills of the artist rather than the manual skills ( even if in other forms of art there was a project behind ).

De re metallica

His most famous work, the De re metallica libri xii long remained a standard work, and marks its author as one of the most accomplished chemists of his time.

De re metallica is considered a classic document of Renaissance metallurgy, unsurpassed for two centuries.

Hoover and his wife also published their English translation of the 1556 mining classic De re metallica in 1912.

De re aedificatoria.

* Latin, French and Italian editions of De re aedificatoria

Georg Agricola, author of De re metallica, an important early work on metal extraction

A 16th century book by Georg Agricola called De re metallica describes the highly developed and complex processes of mining metal ores, metal extraction and metallurgy of the time.

The German Renaissance specialist Georgius Agricola wrote works such as De re metallica ( On Metals, 1556 ) and De Natura Fossilium ( On the Nature of Rocks, 1546 ) which begin the scientific approach to the subject.

Much of our knowledge of medieval mining techniques comes from books such as Biringuccio ’ s De la pirotechnia and probably most importantly from Georg Agricola's De re metallica ( 1556 ).

Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus, Vegetius for short, wrote De re militari possibly in the late 4th century.

Described by historian Walter Goffart as " the bible of warfare throughout the Middle Ages ", De re militari was widely distributed through the Latin West.

Though Vegetius had no military experience, and De re militari was derived from the works of Cato and Frontinus, his books were the standard for military discourse in western Europe from their production until the 16th century.

De re militari was divided into four books: who should be a soldier and the skills they needed to learn ; the composition and structure of an army ; field tactics ; how to conduct and withstand sieges, and the role of the navy.

In 1489 King Henry VII of England commissioned the translation of De re militari into English " so every gentleman born to arms and all manner of men of war, captains, soldiers, vituallers and all others would know how they ought to behave in the feats of wars and battles ".

* De re publica ( The Republic ), a dialogue by Cicero

The Roman cookbook attributed to Apicius, De re coquinaria, has a recipe for a spiced, stewed-pear patina, or soufflé.

Jean Mabillon, a French Benedictine monk, scholar and antiquary, whose work De re diplomatica was published in 1681, is widely regarded as the founder of the twin disciplines of palaeography and diplomatics.

The most important Roman work in this tradition is Cicero's De re publica.

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.

Filarete's ideal city, building on Leone Battista Alberti's De re aedificatoria, was named " Sforzinda " in compliment to his patron ; its twelve-pointed shape, circumscribable by a " perfect " Pythagorean figure, the circle, took no heed of its undulating terrain in Filarete's manuscript.

* The publication of two treatises by Leone Battista Alberti, De Pitura ( On Painting ), 1435, and De re aedificatoria ( Ten Books on Architecture ), 1452.

In 1450 Giovanni de ' Medici commenced on a hillside the Villa Medici in Fiesole, Tuscany, probably the first villa created under the instructions of Leon Battista Alberti, who theorized the features of the new idea of villa in his De re aedificatoria.

* 1480s – Vitruvius ' treatise De architectura and Leon Battista Alberti's De re aedificatoria were published, having previously existed only in manuscript.

Among canon of classical orders of classical architecture, the Tuscan order's place is due to the influence of the Italian Sebastiano Serlio, who meticulously described the five orders including a " Tuscan order ", " the solidest and least ornate ", in his fourth book of Regole generalii di Architettura ... sopra le cinque maniere io fra le antichità di Roma trovato ornamento toscano " in Ackerman 1983: 17 note 11 ); Ackerman identifies some plausibly Tuscan elements in several early 16th-century architectural drawings of unidentified Roman remains .</ ref > and so did Leon Battista Alberti in De re aedificatoria ( shortly before 1452 ).

Deborah Howard explains how the idea was probably derived by Codussi from Alberti's work ' De re aedificatoria ' (" About Building "), published earlier in the 15th century, where he emphasises the importance of towers to a city and the appropriateness of a monumental archway as the entrance to its principal street.

In fact Leon Battista Alberti in his De re aedificatoria ( English: On the Art of Building ) mentions the composite order calling it " Italic ".

De Gaulle withdrew the French administration, with much of the French population following, which took much of the country ’ s infrastructure and large amounts of capital.

Coronado and De Soto travelled with large gangs of armed men.

Other notable works include Workers Union ( 1975 ), a melodically indeterminate piece " for any loud sounding group of instruments "; Mausoleum ( 1979 ) for 2 baritones and large ensemble ; De Tijd ( 1979 – 81 ) for female singers and ensemble ; De Snelheid ( 1982-3 ), for 3 amplified ensembles ; De Materie ( 1984 – 88 ), a large four-part work for voices and ensemble ; collaborations with filmmaker and librettist Peter Greenaway on the film M is for Man, Music, Mozart and the operas Rosa: A Horse Drama ( 1994 ) and Writing to Vermeer ( 1998 ); and the recent La Passione ( 2000 – 02 ) for female voice, violin and ensemble.

In 2005 the city began construction of a new neighbourhood, De Groote Wielen ( named after the large kolks in the area created by flood water ).

The works, which include large sculptures, environmental structures, and murals by more than 40 artists, such as Alice Adams, Pierre Clerk, Dale Eldred, Penelope Jencks, Hans Van De Bovenkamp, Jerry Peart, and Athena Tacha, are organized into a number of walking tours.

In addition to the battlefield in Ukraine, filming also took place on location in Caserta, Italy, while interior scenes were filmed on the large De Laurentiis Studios lot in Rome.

In relation to this discrepancy in the frequency of Lucretius ' reference to the apparent subject of his poem, Kannengiesse advances the theory that Lucretius wrote the first version of De rerum natura for the reader at large, and subsequently revised in order to write it for Memmius.

It has a large collection of medieval manuscripts, including Copernicus ' De Revolutionibus and the Balthasar Behem Codex.

Highlights include large 18th century ship models used to teach seamanship, models of the aircraft carrier Charles De Gaulle.

De Gages moved from Modena towards Lucca, the Spaniards and French in the Alps under Marshal Maillebois advanced through the Italian Riviera to the Tanaro and in the middle of July the two armies were at last concentrated between the Scrivia and the Tanaro, to the unusually large number of 80, 000.

De Ribas and Franz de Volan recommended the area of Khadzhibei fortress as the site for the region's basic port: it had an ice-free harbor, breakwaters could be cheaply constructed and would render the harbor safe and it would have the capacity to accommodate large fleets.

Indeed, Modena is known as the World's ' Supercar Capital ', being the nearest large town to the homes of Maserati, Lamborghini, Pagani and previously also Bugatti and De Tomaso.

De Tocqueville wrote in his Democracy in America ( 1835 ) that " The absence in the United States of those vast accumulations of wealth which favor the expenditures of large sums on articles of mere luxury ... impact to the productions of American industry a character distinct from that of other countries ' industries.

De Soto and his team argue that excessive regulation in the Peruvian ( and other Latin American ) economies force a large part of the economy into informality and thus prevent economic development.

Though De Witt tended to believe the repeated diplomatic assurances by the French and English that they had no invasion in mind, many Dutch politicians and military men interpreted the French diplomatic activities in the German principalities, the preparing of the English Navy and the raising of large armies as sure signs of an imminent war.

He invented a new hoisting machine for raising the masonry needed for the dome, a task no doubt inspired by republication of Vitruvius ' De Architectura, which describes Roman machines used in the first century AD to build large structures such as the Pantheon and the Baths of Diocletian, structures still standing which he would have seen for himself.

One of them was the former guardian and Lord Chief Justice Magnus De La Gardie, who among many other estates had to return the extravagant 248-room large Läckö Castle.

De Marne has a large network of footpaths, cyclepaths, and sailing / canoeing routes.

Hattem, bordering the forests of ‘ De Veluwe ’ and along the IJssel river has much to offer: cosy terraces, interesting museums, a large variety of authentic shops an annually returning events.