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

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

* Éléments de géométrie algébrique, a mathematical treatise by Alexander Grothendieck and Jean Dieudonné

In the 19th century, the idea of a pan-Mediterranean cult of the dying-and-rising demigod was used by Alexander Hislop in his anti-Roman Catholic treatise The Two Babylons.

) discovered a treatise on the subject of palmistry on an altar of Hermes, which he then presented to Alexander the Great ( 356 – 323 B. C. E.

His treatise is really adapted from that by Alexander, son of Numenius, as is expressly stated by Julius Rufinianus, who brought out a supplementary treatise, augmented by material from other sources.

There were also prose translations of French books of chivalry that survive from the 1450s, including The Book of the Law of Armys and the Order of Knychthode and the treatise Secreta Secetorum, an Arabic work believed to be Aristotle's advice to Alexander the Great.

Dinocrates is noted by Vitruvius, in the only surviving architectural treatise from Antiquity, for his plan to sculpt in the flank of Mount Athos a colossal image of Alexander, holding a small city in one hand and with the other, pouring from a gigantic pitcher a river into the sea.

The Éléments de géométrie algébrique (" Elements of Algebraic Geometry ") by Alexander Grothendieck ( assisted by Jean Dieudonné ), or EGA for short, is a rigorous treatise, in French, on algebraic geometry that was published ( in eight parts or fascicles ) from 1960 through 1967 by the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques.

* Eliot's writings, together with his Letter-Book, have been edited by Alexander Grosart in De Jure Maiestatis ; or, Political treatise of government ( 1628-30 ) and The letter-book of Sir John Eliot ( 1625-1632 ), now for the first time printed: from the author's and other mss.

* Kosmos ( Humboldt ), a scientific treatise by Alexander von Humboldt

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.

In Secretum Secretorum (" Secret of Secrets ", in Arabic Kitab sirr al-asrar ), an encyclopedic Arabic treatise on a wide range of topics such as statecraft, ethics, physiognomy, alchemy, astrology, magic and medicine, Alexander appears as a speaker and subject of wise sayings and as a correspondent with figures such as Aristotle.

The treatise also contains supposed letters from Aristotle to Alexander the Great, and this may be related to Alexander the Great in the Qur ' an and the wider range of Middle Eastern Alexander romance literature.

The doctrine was formalized in a 1927 treatise by Alexander Nahum Sack, a Russian émigré legal theorist, based upon 19th-century precedents including Mexico's repudiation of debts incurred by Emperor Maximilian's regime, and the denial by the United States of Cuban liability for debts incurred by the Spanish colonial regime.

It is probable that these illustrations are based on the illustrations from an older, different treatise, possibly that of Alexander of Myndus.

It is possible that the illustrations of birds in the Vienna Dioscurides, which appear to be based on illustrations from an older, different treatise, as they don't relate directly to the treatise they illustrate, are derived from illustrations from the lost treatise on birds of Alexander of Myndus.

a Collection of Medical and Physical Problems, and a treatise on Fevers ) could also be attributed to Alexander of Aphrodisias.

The treatise is written in the esoteric manner typical of the Corpus Aristotelicum, and it often appropriates popular concepts from other philosophical schools-in particular the Peripatetic and Stoic schools-which could be seen as having been prefigured in the works of Plato.

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.

In his treatise Leviathan, ( 1651 ), Hobbes expresses a view of natural law as a precept, or general rule, found out by reason, by which a man is forbidden to do that which is destructive of his life, or takes away the means of preserving the same ; and to omit that by which he thinks it may best be preserved.

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.

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.

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.