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.

Thomas Hobbes also proposed an early variant of equality among men in his treatise Leviathan:

Authorities: Editio princeps by Leo Allatius ( 1651 ), with the editor's famous treatise De Georgiis eorumque Scriptis ; editions in the Bonn Corpus Scriptorum Hist.

The maxillary sinus was first discovered and illustrated by Leonardo da Vinci, but the earliest attribution of significance was given to Nathaniel Highmore, the British surgeon and anatomist who described in detail in his 1651 treatise.

* In Hierapolis Bambyce, Syria ( modern Manbij ), according to the treatise De Dea Syria, the sanctuary of the Syrian Goddess contained a robed and bearded image of Apollo.

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.

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.

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.

Ammonius Grammaticus is the supposed author of a treatise titled Peri homoíōn kai diaphórōn léxeōn ( περὶ ὁμοίων καὶ διαφόρων λέξεων, On the Differences of Synonymous Expressions ), of whom nothing is known.

The last person known to have been able to read Etruscan was the Roman emperor Claudius ( 10 BC – AD 54 ), the author of a treatise in twenty volumes on the Etruscans, Tyrrenikà ( now lost ), who compiled a dictionary ( also lost ) by interviewing the last few elderly rustics who still spoke the language.

* 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 );

* the treatise On Divine Manifestation ( Peri theophaneias ), of unknown date.

200 BCE ), author of the anthropomorphic political treatise and fable collection, the Panchatantra.

* 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.

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.

* Glaucus ( author of Arabica ), author of a treatise on the history of Arabia

The works of Josephus were translated into Latin during the fourth century ( possibly by Rufinus ), and, in the same century, the Jewish War was " partially rewritten as an anti-Jewish treatise, known today as Pseudo-Hegesippus, but < nowiki ></ nowiki > was considered for over a millenium and a half by many Christians as the ipsissima verba of Josephus to his own people.

Even earlier than this collection, it is referred to by Procopius of Gaza ( c. 465-528 ), and Methodius appeals to Justin in support of his interpretation of 1 Corinthians 15: 50 in a way which makes it natural to assume the existence of a treatise on the subject, to say nothing of other traces of a connection in thought both here, in Irenaeus ( V., ii .- xiii.

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

" To make clear my exposition in writing this brief commentary on painting ," Alberti began his treatise, Della Pittura ( On Painting ), " I will take first from the mathematicians those things with which my subject is concerned.

Averroes ( Ibn Rushd ), in his treatise on Justice and Jihad and his commentary on Plato's Republic, writes that the human mind can know of the unlawfulness of killing and stealing and thus of the five maqasid or higher intents of the Islamic sharia or to protect religion, life, property, offspring, and reason.

While there is a short treatise on yoga in the medical work called the Carakasaṃhitā ( by Caraka ), towards the end of the chapter called śārīrasthāna, it is notable for not bearing much resemblance to the Yoga Sūtras, and in fact presenting a form of eightfold yoga that is completely different from that laid out by Patañjali in the Yoga Sūtras and the commentary Yogasūtrabhāṣya.

Sylvester II ), and that he was writing a heretical treatise in the room that collapsed on him, by an Act of God.

Hobbes begins his treatise on politics with an account of human nature.

* Conway's only surviving treatise, The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy ( 1692 ) presents an ontology of spirit in opposition to More, Descartes, Hobbes and Spinoza and utilizes a concept of a monad derived from Kabbala and which anticipates Leibniz who may have plagiarized the idea from her.

The Beruf unserer Zeit, in addition to the more specific object the treatise had in view, which has been already treated, expresses the idea, unfamiliar in 1814, that law is part and parcel of national life, and combats the notion, too much assumed by French jurists, especially in the 18th century, and countenanced in practice by Bentham, that law might be arbitrarily imposed on a country irrespective of its state of civilization and history.

In the treatise on Christian Hermeticism, Meditations on the Tarot: A journey into Christian Hermeticism, describes the Biblical account of Cain and Abel as a myth, i. e. it expresses, in a form narrated for a particular case, an " eternal " idea.

A Counterblaste to Tobacco is a treatise written by King James VI of Scotland and I of England in 1604, in which he expresses his distaste for tobacco, particularly tobacco smoking.

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.

While some scholars attempt to suggest, like Melanchthon, that it is a type of theological treatise, this view largely ignores chapters 14 and 15 of Romans.

Here, rather than in his treatise on the topic ( 1751 ), his view of atonement is clearly defined.

Apparently following this view, Ernest Mandel in his 1960 treatise Marxist Economic Theory refers to ( indirect ) taxes as " arbitrary additions to commodity prices ".

In his later treatise on late capitalism, Mandel astonishingly hardly mentions the significance of taxation at all, a very serious omission from the point of view of the real world of modern capitalism since taxes can reach a magnitude of a third, or even half of GDP ( see E. Mandel, Late Capitalism.

The point of view is written up in Peter Johnstone's Stone Spaces, which has been called by a leader in the field of computer science ' a treatise on extensionality '.

An alternative view found his treatise On Rays is that the planets exercise their influence in straight lines.

This view was also promoted by John Calvin in his treatise attacking " soul sleep ".

The similarity between this treatise and the bull Unam Sanctam seems to support the view taken by some writers that he was the author of the bull.

The Divine Dialogues ( 1688 ), a treatise which condenses his general view of philosophy and religion.

Some years later, in his treatise Musica getutscht ( 1511 ) Virdung ridiculed Schlick's adherence to the view that the black keys should be considered musica ficta, and made rude remarks about the composer's blindness.

The States of Holland reacted with an equally learned treatise, drawn up by the pensionary of the city of Gouda, François Vranck on their behalf, in which it was explained that popular sovereignty in Holland ( and by extension in other provinces ) in the view of the States resided in the vroedschappen and nobility, and that it was administered by ( not transferred to ) the States, and that this had been the case from time immemorial.

Upshur's view of the Constitution received its fullest expression in his 1840 treatise in response to Judge Joseph Story, A Brief Enquiry into the Nature and Character of our Federal Government: Being a Review of Judge Story's Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States.

The theory behind this view was disseminated by Brazilian sociologist and historian Gilberto Freyre in his treatise Casa-Grande & Senzala ( 1933 ), translated into English as The Masters and the Slaves.

Of the person of Christ in this treatise he says nothing ; its one topic is the work of Christ, which in his view operates upon man alone ; the theological sagacity of Sozzini may be measured by the persistency with which this idea tends to recur.

The 13th century pope Innocent III wrote about the essential misery of earthly existence in his " On the misery of the human condition " – a view that was disputed by, for example, Gianozzo Manetti in his treatise " On human dignity.

This view of the world taught by Aristotle and followed by Alexander is apparent in Aristotle's Meteorologica, a treatise on earth sciences where he discusses the " length " and " width " of " the inhabited earth.

The book was the most complete and systematic survey of the science from the point of view of moderate mercantilism which had appeared in England and indeed the first full-fledged economics treatise to appear anywhere.

Mattingly argues, in view of the apparent relevance of the text to the showdown between democracy and oligarchy which resulted in the oligarchic coup of 411, that the treatise was written no earlier than 414.

# On Free Will ( peri tou autexousiou ), an important treatise attacking the Gnostic view of the origin of evil and in proof of the freedom of the human will

Treasury of Humor is unique in that in addition to being a working joke book, it is a treatise on the theory of humor, propounding Asimov's theory that the essence of humor is an abrupt, jarring change in emphasis and / or point of view, moving from the crucial to the trivial, and / or from the sublime to the ridiculous.

Wangyal ( 2002: p. 117 ) in explicating " The Fifth Lamp " ( Zhing khams ngo-sprod sgron-ma ) from within the larger treatise of the Six Lamps ( Sgron-ma drug ), contained within the Bonpo Zhang-Zhung Nyan-Gyud, conveys that a hollow doll with holes in the " nine gateways " ( Skt: navadvāre ) is employed as a teaching tool in Dzogchen to quicken this view:

In 1543 Nicolaus Copernicus published his treatise De revolutionibus orbium coelestium ( On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres ), which presented a heliocentric model view of the universe.