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.

His knowledge of the metaphysics of Spinoza was such that he was selected by one of the professors to prepare materials for a treatise, De Spinosismo, which was afterwards published.

The treatise also rejected the Jewish notion of " chosenness "; to Spinoza, all peoples are on par with each other, as God has not elevated one over the other.

* 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.

His treatise De tyranno (" On the tyrant ") published in 1400, has, most likely, its model in Visconti, although in it Salutati ( despite being a republican ) remains a supporter of the providential universal monarch already put forward by Dante.

Tosi spends a considerable amount of time in his treatise praising the “ ancient ” cantabile ( or “ Pathetick ,” as the original translator put it ) style of his generation, around the turn of the 17th to 18th century.

The method put forward in this treatise " could certainly be characterized as an empirical one ," preferring the effects of diet as observed by the senses to cosmological speculations, and it was seized upon by Hellenistic Empiricist doctors for this reason.

* The Art of Riding, set foorth in a breefe treatise, with a due interpretation of certeine places alledged out of Xenophon, and Gryson, very expert and excellent horsemen ; wherein also the true vse of the hand by the said Grysons rules and precepts is speciallie touched ; and how the author of this present worke hath put the same in practise ; also what profit men may reape thereby ; without the knowledge whereof, all the residue of the art of riding is but vaine.

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

Plato's student Aristotle ( 384-322 BC ) famously set forth an extended treatise on rhetoric that still repays careful study today.

The perusal of Galileo's Two New Sciences ( 1638 ) inspired him with many developments of the mechanical principles there set forth, which he embodied in a treatise De motu ( printed amongst his Opera geometrica, 1644 ).

Strangely, he never set forth his wide-ranging ideas in a book of systematic treatise.

According the P. O. Kristeller, " the decisive step towards the system of the fine arts to the modern idea, " fine art " was taken by the Abbé Batteux in his famous and influential treatise ... him the first to set forth a clearcut system of the fine arts in a treatise devoted entirely to this subject.

To Carloman, on his accession in 882, Hincmar addressed his De ordine palatii, partly based on a treatise ( now lost ) by Adalard, abbot of Corbie ( c. 814 ), in which he set forth his system of government and his opinion of the duties of a sovereign, a subject he had already touched in his De regis persona et regio ministerio, dedicated to Charles the Bald at an unknown date, and in his Instructio ad Ludovicum regem, addressed to Louis the Stammerer on his accession in 877.

Goodwin defended himself ( 1642 ) in Christ set forth, and in a treatise on justification.

Luther's position that the claims of the papacy undermine the Gospel is set forth in this treatise as the position of the Lutheran laity and clergy, and it achieved " confessional " or " symbolic " status rather quickly: the authoritative teaching of what would become the evangelical Lutheran Church.

Guizot set forth the Doctrinaires ' ideology in his 1816 treatise Du gouvernement représentatif et de l ' état actuel de la France.

The works that have survived are in treatise form and were not, for the most part, intended for widespread publication, as they are generally thought to be lecture aids for his students.

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 ).

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

) In the sense used here it is first defined in 1704 by Mathieu de la Porte in his treatise "" as a consideration of different exchange rates to recognize the most profitable places of issuance and settlement for a bill of exchange ("".

The Zohar, which was written in the 13th century, is generally held as the most important esoteric treatise of the Jews.

Among the most important are a controversial treatise on the Catholic Faith, in which are refuted what he saw as the principal errors of the Chinese ; The True Origin of All Things ; and The Life of God, the Saviour, from the Four Gospels.

" 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 ).

Machiavelli is most famous for a short political treatise, The Prince, written in 1513 but not published until 1532, five years after his death.

For tho'all nations count universally by tens ( originally occasioned by the number of digits on both hands ) yet 8 is a far more complete and commodious number ; since it is divisible into halves, quarters, and half quarters ( or units ) without a fraction, of which subdivision ten is uncapable ...." In a later treatise on Octave computation ( 1753 ) Jones concluded: " Arithmetic by Octaves seems most agreeable to the Nature of Things, and therefore may be called Natural Arithmetic in Opposition to that now in Use, by Decades ; which may be esteemed Artificial Arithmetic.

* Daniel V. Thompson, Jr. ( translator ), Cennino de Cennini, Il Libro Dell ' Arte, Dover, the most well known treatise on painting and other related techniques

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 England, Christopher Simpson wrote the most important treatise, with the second edition being published in 1667 in parallel text ( English and Latin ).

* 1025 – Avicenna of Persia publishes his influential treatise, The Canon of Medicine, which remains the most influential medical text in both Islamic and Christian lands for over six centuries, and The Book of Healing, a scientific encyclopedia.

Clarifying their aims as artists, this work was the first theoretical treatise on Cubism and it still remains the clearest and most intelligible.

Scholars think it might have been an Etruscan ( or local ) creation based on Vitruvius ' treatise on architecture, in which the three deities are associated as most important.

He is most remembered as the patron of astronomer Galileo Galilei, whose 1610 treatise, Sidereus Nuncius, was dedicated to him.

Such axiomatizations were most famously used by Russell and Whitehead in their mathematical treatise Principia Mathematica.

Ptolemy's treatise on astrology, the Tetrabiblos, was the most popular astrological work of antiquity and also enjoyed great influence in the Islamic world and the medieval Latin West.

Engel would help Lie to write his most important treatise, Theorie der Transformationsgruppen, published in Leipzig in three volumes from 1888 to 1893.

His most important treatise, that by which he has a place in the history of philosophy, is entitled Sefer Milhamot Ha-Shem, (" The Wars of the Lord "), and occupied twelve years in composition ( 1317 – 1329 ).

It has been the most famous and influential of China's Seven Military Classics, and: " for the last two thousand years it remained the most important military treatise in Asia, where even the common people knew it by name.

The work is a complete and systematic treatise on mining and extractive metallurgy, illustrated with many fine and interesting woodcuts which illustrate every conceivable process to extract ores from the ground and metal from the ore, and more besides.

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

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.

* Diophantus writes Arithmetica, the first systematic treatise on algebra.

This was a systematic treatise on civil and praetorian law, cited by many later Roman legal writers, which has been described as “ A comprehensive collection of responsa on real and hypothetical cases ; in general, it followed the edictal system ... With Iulianus, the Roman jurisprudence reached its apogee .”

Other works are a treatise on the fundamental laws of property ( Über die Grundlage des Besitzes, Berlin, 1829 ), a portion of a systematic work on the Roman civil law ( System des römischen Zivilrechts, 1827 ), and a collection of his miscellaneous writings ( Vermischte Schriften.

Following a series of further essays, he published in 1810 ' Organon of the Rational Art of Healing ,' followed over the years by 4 further editions titled: The Organon of the Healing Art, the first systematic treatise and containing all his detailed instructions on the subject.

Gottsched's chief work was his Versuch einer kritischen Dichtkunst für die Deutschen ( 1730 ), the first systematic treatise in German on the art of poetry from the standpoint of Boileau.

Philo wrote a systematic work on Moses and his laws, which was prefaced by the treatise " De Opificio Mundi ," which in the present editions precedes " De Allegoriis Legum ," book i ( comp.

The first systematic physiognomic treatise to survive to the present day is a slim volume, Physiognomonica ( English: Physiognomonics ), ascribed to Aristotle ( but probably of his " school " rather than created by the philosopher himself ).

Later Zapffe gave a more systematic defence in his philosophical treatise Om det tragiske ( en.

Whoever the author may have been, there is no doubt about the importance of the work, which is the most systematic and comprehensive treatise of the time on its subject.

Between 1350 and 1365 Theodoric Borgognoni produced a systematic four volume treatise on surgery, the Cyrurgia, which promoted important innovations as well as early forms of antiseptic practice in the treatment of injury, and surgical anaesthesia using a mixture of opiates and herbs.

Melissus ’ contribution to philosophy was a treatise of systematic arguments supporting Eleatic philosophy.

The observational aspects were complete, but two important tasks remained, namely the selection and integration of the data into accounts of the motions of the planets, and the presentation of the results on the entire program in the form of a systematic treatise.

Those seventy letters constitute the De sedibus et causis morborum, which was given to the world as a systematic treatise in 2 vols., folio ( Venice, 1761 ), twenty years after the task of epistolary instruction was begun.

* Thomas Rickman-An Attempt to discriminate the Styles of English Architecture from the Conquest to the Reformation, the first systematic treatise on Gothic architecture.

Still, the treatise certainly originated from his school, and in its systematic attempt to give a speculative justification of the polytheistic cult practices of the day, it marks a turning-point in the history of thought where Iamblichus stood.

The Book of Union is Babai's most systematic surviving christological treatise, divided into seven memre that cover more than 200 folios.

At his request Valerio, Bishop of Verona, wrote a systematic treatise on homiletics entitled " Rhetorica Ecclesiastica " ( 1575 ), in which he points out the difference between profane and sacred eloquence and emphasizes the two principal objects of the preacher, to teach and to move ( docere et commovere ).

His first publication was an article on Gothic architecture for Smith's Panorama of Arts and Sciences ( Liverpool ), which was separately published in 1817 as An Attempt to discriminate the Styles of English Architecture from the Conquest to the Reformation, 1817, the first systematic treatise on Gothic architecture and a milestone in the Gothic Revival.

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.

It is rather a miscellany than a systematic treatise, but contains much original and acute thinking.