On the other hand, it now seems practically demonstrated that Alain de Lille was the author of the Ars catholicae fidei and the treatise Contra haereticos.

Opening paragraph of the treatise On Fate ( Pros tous Autokratoras ) by Alexander of Aphrodisias.

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

On Fate is a treatise in which Alexander argues against the Stoic doctrine of necessity.

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.

A fragment of his treatise On burning-glasses was published as (" Concerning wondrous machines ") by L. Dupuy in 1777, and also appeared in 1786 in the forty-second volume of the Histoire de l ' Academie des Instrumentistes.

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.

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.

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.

An early attempt to understand memory can be found in Aristotle ’ s major treatise, On the Soul, in which he compares the human mind to a blank slate.

Doppler first proposed the effect in 1842 in his treatise " Über das farbige Licht der Doppelsterne und einiger anderer Gestirne des Himmels " ( On the coloured light of the binary stars and some other stars of the heavens ).

* 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.

Numerous fragments of his thirty-seven volume treatise On Nature have been found among the charred papyrus fragments at the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum.

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

* 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.

However, there is a reference in Galen's treatise " On Theriac to Piso " ( which may however be spurious ) to events of 204.

Diogenes states that Heraclitus ' work was " a continuous treatise On Nature, but was divided into three discourses, one on the universe, another on politics, and a third on theology.

His novel Émile: or, On Education is a treatise on the education of the whole person for citizenship.

# a treatise On the Sovereignty of God, in which he makes use of pagan authorities as well as Christian ;

# a treatise in scholastic form On the Soul ; and

The treatise On the Resurrection, of which extensive fragments are preserved in the Sacra parallela, is not so generally accepted.

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.

The method of comparing hardness by seeing which minerals can scratch others, however, is of great antiquity, having first been mentioned by Theophrastus in his treatise On Stones, c. 300 BC, followed by Pliny the Elder in his Naturalis Historia, c. 77 AD.

Three of the antagonists in the 1998 movie The Big Lebowski are explicitly described as " nihilists ;" and the 1999 film The Matrix portrays the character Thomas A. Anderson with a hollowed out copy of Baudrillard's treatise, Simulacra and Simulation, in which he stores contraband data files under the chapter " On Nihilism.

# A practical treatise on the Duties to be performed ... at a siege, 3rd Edition, Lonon, William Clowes and Son, 1860, London

The principal work of Panaetius was, without doubt, his treatise On Duties () composed in three books.

In 1521, Martin Luther had published ' De votis monasticis ' (' On the monastic vows '), a treatise which declared that the monastic life had no scriptural basis, was pointless and also actively immoral in that it was not compatible with the true spirit of Christianity.

But he developed a theory of his own as to the Resurrection ( see Eutychianism ) on account of which Conon and Eugenius wrote a treatise against him in collaboration with Themistus, the founder of the Agnoctae, in which they declared his views to be altogether unchristian.

In 1880 he published the Vollständiges Orthographisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache (" Complete Orthographical Dictionary of the German Language "); this seminal treatise was declared the official source for correct spelling in the administration of Prussia the same year.

The end of the Nicomachean Ethics declared that the inquiry into ethics necessarily follows into politics, and the two works are frequently considered to be parts of a larger treatise, or perhaps connected lectures, dealing with the " philosophy of human affairs.

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.

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.

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

Zvelebil in his earlier treatise ( Zvelebil 1975: p53 ) states, " It is obvious that the Sanskrit, Pali damila, and Prakrit are all etymologically connected with " and further remarks " The r in > is a hypercorrect insertion, cf.

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.

They were mentioned by Julius Caesar in his treatise, The Gallic Wars, and by 391 BC, they were written about by Roman Consul, Quintus Aurelius Symmachus, who received seven of them, " canes Scotici ", as a gift to be used for fighting lions, bears, that in his words, " all Rome viewed with wonder ".

" 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.

In his long life he completed over 35 works, the largest and most famous of which is Tantrāloka, an encyclopedic treatise on all the philosophical and practical aspects of Trika and Kaula ( known today as Kashmir Shaivism ).

In both Della pittura and De statua, a short treatise on sculpture, Alberti stressed that " all steps of learning should be sought from nature.

The apologetic principles underlying all the works of Lactantius are well set forth in this treatise.

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 ).

The same treatise outlines the option of undertaking fewer than all five precepts, though nearly all modern ceremonies involve undertaking all five precepts.

In dealing with atheism Cudworth's method is to marshal the atheistic arguments elaborately, so elaborately that Dryden remarked " he has raised such objections against the being of a God and Providence that many think he has not answered them "; then in his last chapter, which by itself is as long as an ordinary treatise, he confutes them with all the reasons that his reading could supply.

Among the famous jurists of the republican period are Quintus Mucius Scaevola who wrote a voluminous treatise on all aspects of the law, which was very influential in later times, and Servius Sulpicius Rufus, a friend of Marcus Tullius Cicero.

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.

His writing in The Blue Rider Almanac and the treatise " On the Spiritual In Art " ( which was released around the same time ) were both a defence and promotion of abstract art and an affirmation that all forms of art were equally capable of reaching a level of spirituality.

Vesalius was the first to publish a treatise, De humani corporis fabrica, that challenged Galen " drawing for drawing " travelling all the way from Leuven to Padua for permission to dissect victims from the gallows without fear of persecution.

However, Pascal developed many uses of it and was the first one to organize all the information together in his treatise, Traité du triangle arithmétique ( 1653 ).

Bukharin had been allowed to write four book-length manuscripts, including an autobiographical novel, How It All Began, a philosophical treatise, and a collection of poems – all of which were found in Stalin's archive and published in the 1990s – while in prison.

Another of her favourite books was Thomas Carlyle's three-volume treatise The French Revolution: A History ; she later said the work " remained all my life a source of inspiration.

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.

Tautly written, it is a treatise on how someone, with all of the skills, can lose if he " wants " to lose ; how a loser is beaten by himself, not by his opponent ; and how he can learn to win, if he can look deeply enough into himself.

In addition there survive extracts on agriculture and botany, mention of a commentary on Hippocrates, and a completely surviving treatise On all types of marble and wood ().