Saint Joseph, Abbot of Volokolamsk ( 1439 – 1515 ), wrote a number of influential works against heresy, and about monastic and liturgical discipline, and Christian philanthropy.

Wallace was a prolific author who wrote on both scientific and social issues ; his account of his adventures and observations during his explorations in Indonesia and Malaysia, The Malay Archipelago, was one of the most popular and influential journals of scientific exploration published during the 19th century.

In about 723, Bede wrote a longer work on the same subject, On the Reckoning of Time, which was influential throughout the Middle Ages.

His works were so influential that late in the 9th century Notker the Stammerer, a monk of the Monastery of St. Gall in Switzerland, wrote that " God, the orderer of natures, who raised the Sun from the East on the fourth day of Creation, in the sixth day of the world has made Bede rise from the West as a new Sun to illuminate the whole Earth ".

Cotton Mather wrote more than 450 books and pamphlets, and his ubiquitous literary works made him one of the most influential religious leaders in America.

Will Wright wrote that Alexander's work was influential in the origin of The Sims computer game, and in his later game Spore.

Time wrote it had " grown from its place as the most influential fall film festival to the most influential film festival, period.

Douglass wrote several autobiographies, eloquently describing his experiences in slavery in his 1845 autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, which became influential in its support for abolition.

He studied and later lectured at Heythrop College and, seeing the poor standard of philosophical teaching in seminaries, wrote an influential nine-volume History of Philosophy ( 1946 – 75 ), which is highly respected.

* Boethius ( c. 480 – 524 ), who also wrote a theological treatise On the Trinity, repeated the Macrobian model of the Earth in the center of a spherical cosmos in his influential, and widely translated, Consolation of Philosophy.

* The monk Bede ( c. 672 – 735 ) wrote in his influential treatise on computus, The Reckoning of Time, that the Earth was round (' not merely circular like a shield spread out like a wheel, but resembl more a ball '), explaining the unequal length of daylight from " the roundness of the Earth, for not without reason is it called ' the orb of the world ' on the pages of Holy Scripture and of ordinary literature.

In the 12th century, German Benedictine abbess Hildegard von Bingen ( 1098 – 1179 ) wrote several influential theological, botanical, and medicinal texts, as well as letters, liturgical songs, poems, and arguably the oldest surviving morality play, while supervising brilliant miniature Illuminations.

The foremost Roman historian, he wrote an extremely influential account on Rome in the first century, the Annals.

Avicenna, considered among the most influential medical scholars in history, wrote The Canon of Medicine ( 1025 ) and The Book of Healing ( 1027 ), which remained standard textbooks in both Muslim and European universities until the 17th century.

He wrote a favorable encyclopedia article on hypnotism, translated one of Bernheim's works into German, and published an influential series of case studies with his colleague Joseph Breuer entitled Studies on Hysteria ( 1895 ).

Together they wrote an influential 1995 book The Major Transitions in Evolution, a seminal work which continues to contribute to ongoing issues in evolutionary biology.

* Alberti wrote an influential work on architecture, De Re Aedificatoria, which by the 18th century had been translated into Italian, French, Spanish and English.

Hu Shih, a pivotal figure of the first half of the twentieth century, wrote an influential and perceptive study of this literary tradition, entitled Báihuà Wénxuéshǐ ( A History of Vernacular Literature ).

The English cleric Richard Cumberland wrote a lengthy and influential attack on Hobbes's depiction of individual self-interest as the essential feature of human motivation.

Michael Specter wrote that Singer is among the most influential of contemporary philosophers.

Ptolemy also wrote an influential work, Harmonics, on music theory and the mathematics of music.

As the preeminent Athenian historian, Thucydides, wrote in his influential History of the Peloponnesian War, " The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Lacedaemon, made war inevitable.

Proclus also wrote an influential commentary on the first book of Euclid's Elements of Geometry.

Heinlein grew up in the era of racial segregation in the United States and wrote some of his most influential fiction at the height of the US civil rights movement.

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.

Ambrose also wrote a treatise by the name of " The Goodness of Death ".

The Swiss Psychologist Carl Jung wrote a short Gnostic treatise in 1916 called The Seven Sermons to the Dead, which called Abraxas a God higher than the Christian God and Devil, that combines all opposites into one Being.

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

In 825 Al-Khwārizmī wrote a treatise in Arabic, On the Calculation with Hindu Numerals, which was translated into Latin from Arabic in the 12th century as Algoritmi de numero Indorum.

Chanakya ( c. 350 – 283 BC ) wrote about assassinations in detail in his political treatise Arthashastra.

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.

In this year, he also wrote an important treatise on the arithmetical triangle.

He immediately began to confute the Arians and wrote a treatise against their teaching, which has been lost.

David Gregory wrote a treatise on the catenary in 1697.

He also wrote a long treatise on Medicine, History of Life and Death, with natural and experimental observations for the prolongation of life.

Aristotle ( 384-322 BC ), Plato ’ s greatest pupil, wrote a treatise on methods of reasoning used in deductive proofs ( see Logic ) which was not substantially improved upon until the 19th century.

Euclid ( c. 325-265 BC ), of Alexandria, probably a student of one of Plato ’ s students, wrote a treatise in 13 books ( chapters ), titled The Elements of Geometry, in which he presented geometry in an ideal axiomatic form, which came to be known as Euclidean geometry.

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.

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.

Isidore of Miletus was a renowned scientist and mathematician before Emperor Justinian I hired him, “ Isidorus taught stereometry and physics at the universities, first of Alexandria then of Constantinople, and wrote a commentary on an older treatise on vaulting .” Emperor Justinian I appointed his architects to rebuild the Hagia Sophia following his victory over protesters within the capital city of his Roman Empire, Constantinople.

He wrote the treatise, Vera Christianae pacificationis et Ecclesiae reformandae ratio in 1549, in which he described the doctrines that should be upheld, including justification by faith.

" In Joseph Story's 1833 treatise Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, he wrote, " t is a most important and valuable amendment ; and places upon the high ground of constitutional right the inestimable privilege of a trial by jury in civil cases, a privilege scarcely inferior to that in criminal cases, which is conceded by all to be essential to political and civil liberty.

Cicero wrote a treatise called On Friendship ( de Amicitia ), which discusses the notion at some length.

It was during this period that he wrote his first book, a treatise on arithmetic for the boys he was tutoring.

In 1269, Peter Peregrinus de Maricourt wrote the Epistola de magnete, the first extant treatise describing the properties of magnets.

He taught medicine in the Papal Medical School and wrote a long treatise about his studies which he donated to the Royal Society of London.

While in prison, he wrote at least four book-length manuscripts including a lyrical autobiographical novel, How It All Began, philosophical treatise Philosophical Arabesques, a collection of poems, and Socialism and Its Culture – all of which were found in Stalin's archive and published in the 1990s ).