That after all his years of effort to become a composer, he should now, now when he was still stoutly replying to the critics of his Discourse on the Arts and Sciences, be so close to a success in music and have to reject it.

As a formal concept, the method has variously been ascribed to Alhazen, René Descartes ( Discourse on the Method ) and Galileo Galilei.

Analytic geometry has traditionally been attributed to René Descartes Descartes made significant progress with the methods in an essay entitled La Geometrie ( Geometry ), one of the three accompanying essays ( appendices ) published in 1637 together with his Discourse on the Method for Rightly Directing One's Reason and Searching for Truth in the Sciences, commonly referred to as Discourse on Method.

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.

Descartes's original statement was "", from his Discourse on Method ( 1637 ).

Among these were: Commentaries on the Old Testament, Thesaurus, Discourse Against Arians Commentary on St. John's Gospel, and Dialogues on the Trinity.

:* – Discourse on Defilement

Shakespeare on Silent Film: An Excellent Dumb Discourse.

Between 1748 and 1751 the Philosophes reached their most influential period, as Montesquieu published Spirit of Laws ( 1748 ) and Jean Jacques Rousseau published Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences ( 1750 ).

* 1955 Colette ( Discourse on the reception at the Royal Academy of Belgium ) – Discourse on the reception at the Académie française

His Discourse on the Origin of Inequality and his On the Social Contract are cornerstones in modern political and social thought.

Rousseau's 1750 " Discourse on the Arts and Sciences " was awarded the first prize and gained him significant fame.

In 1755, Rousseau completed his second major work, the Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men ( the Discourse on Inequality ), which elaborated on the arguments of the Discourse on the Arts and Sciences.

See Walter J. Ong, Ramus, Method, and the Decay of Dialogue: From the Art of Discourse to the Art of Reason ( Harvard University Press, 1958 ; reissued by the University of Chicago Press, 2004, with a new foreword by Adrian Johns ).

He is perhaps best known for the philosophical statement " Cogito ergo sum " (; ), found in part IV of Discourse on the Method ( 1637 – written in French but with inclusion of " Cogito ergo sum ") and § 7 of part I of Principles of Philosophy ( 1644 – written in Latin ).

" ( Descartes, Discourse on the Method ).

Nevertheless, in 1637 he published part of this work in three essays: Les Météores ( The Meteors ), La Dioptrique ( Dioptrics ) and La Géométrie ( Geometry ), preceded by an introduction, his famous Discours de la Métode ( Discourse on the Method ).

In his Discourse on the Method, he attempts to arrive at a fundamental set of principles that one can know as true without any doubt.

Thought cannot be separated from me, therefore, I exist ( Discourse on the Method and Principles of Philosophy ).

The moral writings of Descartes came at the last part of his life, but earlier, in his Discourse on Method he adopted three maxims to be able to act while he put all his ideas into doubt.

Discours de la méthode ( Discourse on the Method ).

Discourse on the Method (" Discours de la Methode ").

* More easily readable versions of Meditations, Objections and Replies, Principles of Philosophy, Discourse on the Method, Correspondence with Princess Elisabeth, and Passions of the Soul.

* Walter J. Ong, S. J., " Ramus: Method and the Decay of Dialogue: From the Art of Discourse to the Art of Reason.

* René Descartes ( 1596 – 1650 ) published his Discourse on the Method in 1637, which helped to establish the scientific method.

René Descartes independently derived the law using heuristic momentum conservation arguments in terms of sines in his 1637 treatise Discourse on Method, and used it to solve a range of optical problems.

* Discourse on Method, a philosophical and mathematical treatise by René Descartes

Already René Descartes in his Discourse on the Method had attested to the impact Renaissance planned new towns had upon his own thought, and much evidence exists that the Renaissance streetscape was also the perceptual stimulus that had led to the development of coordinate geometry ( see, e. g., Claudia Lacour Brodsky, Lines of Thought: Discourse, Architectonics, and the Origins of Modern Philosophy, Duke 1996 ).

He elaborated these beliefs in such works as Discourse on Method, Meditations on First Philosophy, and Principles of Philosophy.

* Descartes, René ( 1637 ), Discourse on Method.

The Discourse on the Method is a philosophical and autobiographical treatise published by René Descartes in 1637.

A Discourse of Sallets: " Sellery, apium Italicum, ( and of the Petroseline Family ) was formerly a stranger with us ( nor very long since in Italy ) is an hot and more generous sort of Macedonian Persley or Smallage ... and for its high and grateful Taste is ever plac'd in the middle of the Grand Sallet, at our Great Men's tables, and Praetors feasts, as the Grace of the whole Board ".

But the most noticeable of his productions is A Discourse of Wit ( 1685 ), which contains some of the most characteristic metaphysical opinions of the Scottish philosophy of common sense.

Discourse 5 of that work, " Knowledge Its Own End ", is still relevant as a clear statement of a Christian educational perennialism.

In 2004 Scott Kellum published a detailed analysis of the literally unity of the entire Farewell Discourse and stated that it shows that it was written by a single author, and that its structure and placement within the Gospel of John is consistent with the rest of that gospel.

This is clear from the Discourse on Political Economy, where Rousseau emphasizes that the general will exists to protect individuals against the mass, not to require them to be sacrificed to it.

Numerology is prominent throughout Sir Thomas Browne's 1658 literary Discourse The Garden of Cyrus.

* Discourse to the Greek ( Oratio ad Graecos ), by the Syrian Tatian, is the first treatise on the evils of paganism in Christian literature.

* John Evelyn's Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-Trees and the Propagation of Timber is published in London in book form.

According to the historian of ideas, Arthur O. Lovejoy :" The notion that Rousseau ’ s Discourse on Inequality was essentially a glorification of the State of Nature, and that its influence tended to wholly or chiefly to promote " Primitivism " is one of the most persistent historical errors.

" Lovejoy concludes that Rousseau's doctrine, as expressed in his Discourse on Inequality: declares that there is a dual process going on through history ; on the one hand, an indefinte progress in all those powers and achievements which express merely the potency of man's intellect ; on the other hand, an increasing estrangement of men from one another, an intensification of ill-will and mutual fear, cuminating in a monstrous epoch of universal conflict and mutual destruction fourth stage in which we now find ourselves.

Rousseau is notable as the philosopher who first proposed, in his second Discourse, that reason ( along with political life ) is not natural to mankind, and not even good for mankind.

Discourse varies depending upon the meaning-context that is created due to the situation, and because of this, it is " embedded in the situation " ( Bitzer 4 ).

Discourse ( Latin: discursus, “ running to and fro ”) is the term that describes written and spoken communications ; its denotations include:

Discourse is closely linked to different theories of power and state, at least as long as defining discourses is seen to mean defining reality itself.

Discourse according to Foucault ( 1977, 1980, 2003 ) is related to power as it operates by rules of exclusion.

Discourse therefore is controlled by objects, what can be spoken of ; ritual, where and how one may speak ; and the privileged, who may speak.

* Fisk is also a recipient of the College Historical Society's Gold Medal for Outstanding Contribution to Public Discourse.

In modern times, a popular ( but far from unanimous ) opinion is that Jesus in the Olivet Discourse is using the apocalyptic language of his time symbolically, as did many Jewish prophets.