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The Anticlaudianus, a treatise on morals as allegory, the form of which recalls the pamphlet of Claudian against Rufinus, is agreeably versified and relatively pure in its latinity.
This rule is completed in his treatise, Ars catholicae fidei, as follows: Theology itself may be demonstrated by reason.
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.
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.
This treatise is not mentioned in surviving Greek sources, but it enjoyed great popularity in the Muslim world, and a large number of copies have survived.
He was also an accomplished astronomer ; he lectured on Ptolemy and is known to have written a treatise on the astrolabe.
Andreas Capellanus ( Capellanus meaning " chaplain ") was the 12th-century author of a treatise commonly known as De amore (" About Love "), and often known in English, somewhat misleadingly, as The Art of Courtly Love, though its realistic, somewhat cynical tone suggests that it is in some measure an antidote to courtly love.
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.
that the real author was Herennius Philo of Byblus, who was born during the reign of Nero and lived till the reign of Hadrian, and that the treatise in its present form is a revision prepared by a later Byzantine editor, whose name may have been Ammonius.
) 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 ("".
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.
Sometimes this is referred to as " hornbook law " meaning treatise or textbook, often relied upon as authoritative, competent, and generally accepted in the field of Canadian law.
Below is the list of the ten bhūmis and their descriptions according to the Avataṃsaka Sūtra and The Jewel Ornament of Liberation, a treatise by Gampopa, an influential teacher of the Tibetan Kagyu school.
Following Desargues ' thinking, the sixteen-year-old Pascal produced, as a means of proof, a short treatise on what was called the " Mystic Hexagram ", Essai pour les coniques (" Essay on Conics ") and sent it — his first serious work of mathematics — to Père Mersenne in Paris ; it is known still today as Pascal's theorem.
The next definitive historical treatise on the common law is Commentaries on the Laws of England, written by Sir William Blackstone and first published in 1765-1769.
A detailed description of the gastraphetes, along with a drawing, is found in Heron's technical treatise Belopoeica.
A detailed description of the gastraphetes, or the “ belly-bow ”, along with a watercolor drawing, is found in Heron's technical treatise Belopoeica.
Besides the great trilogy, Clement's only other extant work is the treatise Salvation for the rich.
The Zohar, which was written in the 13th century, is generally held as the most important esoteric treatise of the Jews.
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.

treatise and compendium
Another 10th century treatise thought to have mentioned an instrument similar to the hurdy gurdy is an Arabic musical compendium written by Al Zirikli .< ref name = Baines >
His one major survivor, the philosophical treatise, Theologiae Graecae compendium (" Compendium of Greek Theology "; the Greek title being uncertain ) is a manual of " popular mythology as expounded in the etymological and symbolical interpretations of the Stoics ".
Together with his friend and colleague C. Lyon-Caen, he produced several works on commercial law, including a compendium in two volumes, a treatise in eight volumes, and a manual that ran to many editions.
Besides a compendium of Hebrew grammar ( Kurzgefasste Grammatik der hebräischen Sprache, 1835 ), and a treatise on Arabic versification ( Darstellung der arabischen Verskunst, 1830 ), Freytag edited two volumes of Arabic songs ( Hamasae carmina, 1828-1852 ) and three of Arabic proverbs ( Arabum proverbia, 1838-1843 ), and parts of Ibn al-Adim's history of Aleppo ( Selecta ex Historia Halebi, 1819 ).
He is known by one treatise, a medical compendium called Khulasat al-tajarib ( The Summary of Experience ) which he composed in 1501CE in the village of Tarasht, which was near the town of Ray, present-day Tehran.
His only treatise, an Arabic medical compendium with emphasis on terminology titled The Truths of the Secrets of Medicine ( Haqa ' iq asrar al-tibb ), was dedicated to a minor vizier in Baghdad by the name of Sadr al-Dawlah Abu al-Mufakar Qasim ibn ‘ Iraq ibn Ja ‘ far.

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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.
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 ().

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