In the preface, Abba Mari explains his object in collecting the correspondence ; and in the treatise which follows he shows that the study of philosophy, useful in itself as a help toward the acquisition of the knowledge of God, requires great caution, lest we be misled by the Aristotelian philosophy or its false interpretation, as regards the principles of creation ex nihilo and divine individual providence.

Even the translation of the treatise of Didymus the Blind on the Holy Spirit into Latin ( begun in Rome 384, completed at Bethlehem ) shows an apologetic tendency against the Arians and Pneumatomachoi.

This treatise shows that the heart, its vessels, liver, spleen, kidneys, hypothalamus, uterus and bladder were recognized, and that the blood vessels were known to emanate from the heart.

Many contemporary string players vary the pitch from below, only up to the nominal note and not above it, although great violin pedagogues of the past such as Carl Flesch and Joseph Joachim explicitly referred to vibrato as a movement towards the bridge, meaning upwards in pitch ,— and the cellist Diran Alexanian, in his 1922 treatise Traité théorique et pratique du Violoncelle, shows how one should practice vibrato as starting from the note and then moving upwards in a rhythmic motion.

He wrote a treatise on the use of the abacus called Regulae Abaci, which was likely written very early in his career because it shows no trace of Arab influence.

The 710-page work followed the pattern of Coke's Institutes of the Lawes of England, but was far more methodical ; James Fitzjames Stephen said that Hale's work " was not only of the highest authority but shows a depth of thought which puts it in quite a different category from Coke's Institute ... is far more of a treatise and far less of an index or mere work of practice ".

In his treatise De renunciatione Papæ sive Apologia pro Bonifacio VIII he shows the legitimacy of Celestine's resignation and consequently of Boniface's election.

In the treatise, he demonstrates how a camel's pace could be hastened or retarded with the use of music, and shows other examples of how music can affect animal behavior, experimenting with horses, birds and reptiles.

In the treatise, he demonstrates how a camel's pace could be hastened or slowed down with the use of music, and shows other examples of how music can affect animal behaviour and animal psychology, experimenting with horses, birds and reptiles.

While the treatise shows that he possessed considerable compositional skill, no music by Cerone has survived and he is not known to have published any.

But the context shows clearly that perspective painting must be meant, for Vitruvius goes on to say that Democritus and Anaxagoras, carrying out the principles laid down in a treatise written by Agatharchus,

In favour of the later date is the nature of his Latin, which shows a strong tendency to the Romance, and the similarity of his language to that of Cassius Felix, also an African medical writer, who about 450 wrote a short treatise, chiefly based on Galen.

His only work was Sha ' are Torah a treatise on the principles of Talmudic law which shows the author's methodical mind and vast knowledge of Talmudic literature.

A second source, also from the late 4th century, is an anonymous treatise titled De Rebus Bellicis, which briefly discusses ( so far archaeologically unattested ) spiked plumbatae ( plumbata tribolata ), but which is also the only source that shows an image of what a plumbata looked like.

Pascal was an important mathematician, helping create two major new areas of research: he wrote a significant treatise on the subject of projective geometry at the age of sixteen, and later corresponded with Pierre de Fermat on probability theory, strongly influencing the development of modern economics and social science.

From the need for horseshoes, the craft of blacksmithing became " one of the great staple crafts of medieval and modern times and contributed to the development of metallurgy .” A treatise titled " No Foot, No Horse " was published in Great Britain in 1751.

He wrote a significant treatise on the subject of projective geometry at the age of sixteen, and later corresponded with Pierre de Fermat ( 1601 – 1665 ) on probability theory, strongly influencing the development of modern economics and social science.

The book is likely to be the first treatise on the development and educating infants and children up to six in the family.

Schlieffen's operational theories were to have a profound impact on the development of maneuver warfare in the twentieth century, largely through his seminal treatise, Cannae, which concerned the decidedly un-modern battle of 216 BC in which Hannibal defeated the Romans.

He wrote an influential treatise on gunnery, for the first time introducing Newtonian science to military men, was an early enthusiast for rifled gun barrels, and his work had substantive influence on the development of artillery during the latter half of the eighteenth century – and directly stimulated the teaching of calculus in military academies.

To this, the first elementary treatise on determinants, much of the rapid development of the subject is due.

In the early 20th century, Grenache was one of the first Vitis vinifera grapes to be successfully vinified in during the early development of the Washington wine industry with a 1966 Yakima Valley rosé earning mention in wine historian Leon Adams treatise The Wines of America.

In the early 20th century, Grenache was one of the first Vitis vinifera grapes to be successfully vinified in during the early development of the Washington wine industry with a 1966 Yakima Valley rosé earning mention in wine historian Leon Adams treatise The Wines of America.

He wrote the first dictionary of musical terms ( the Diffinitorium musices ); a book on the characteristics of the musical modes ; a treatise on proportions ; and three books on counterpoint, which is particularly useful in charting the development of voice-leading and harmony in the transitional period between Dufay and Josquin.

He was famous as a teacher, for his treatise on counterpoint, and for his part in the development of keyboard technique, particularly on the organ.

Having received Engelmann's treatise through his correspondent Marianne von Willemer, Goethe inquired after the young author, saying that Engelmann had completely apprehended Goethe's ideas concerning vegetable morphology, and had shown a peculiar genius for their development.

As recently as the 1960s, when Alfred P. Sloan published his famous memoir and management treatise, My Years with General Motors, even the longtime president and chair of the largest manufacturing enterprise that had ever existed knew very little about the history of the development, other than to say that "< nowiki > was, I believe, one of those mainly responsible for bringing the technique of interchangeable parts into automobile manufacturing.

As the title suggests, the treatise gives a reconstruction of the development of medicine, assuming that it was an outgrowth of the discovery by ancient people that health could be promoted by the consumption of certain foods prepared properly.

It was the first treatise to present a clear and focused discussion of the development and applications of management science.

Giocondo was among the first to produce a corrected edition of De Architectura by the classical Roman writer Vitruvius, a treatise that had a major influence on the development of Renaissance architecture.

He was one of the inspirations, along with Giovanni Battista Montini, future Pope Paul VI, of the celebrated Camaldoli Conference of July 1943, which produced an eponymous economic treatise that influenced the development of post-war democratic Italy.

Cornelis van Bijnkershoek ( a. k. a. Cornelius van Bynkershoek ) ( 29 May 1673, Middelburg – 16 April 1743, The Hague ) was a Dutch jurist and legal theorist who contributed to the development of international law in works like De Dominio Maris Dissertatio ( 1702 ); Observationes Juris Romani ( 1710 ), of which a continuation in four books appeared in 1733 ; the treatise De foro legatorum ( 1721 ); and the Quaestiones Juris Publici ( 1737 ).

On Intelligence ... more or less: A bio-ecological treatise on intellectual development.

On Intelligence: A bio-ecological treatise on intellectual development 2nd ed.

More specifically, the Burmese Way to Socialism is an economic treatise written in April 1962 by the Revolutionary Council, shortly after the coup, as a blueprint for economic development, reducing foreign influence in Burma, and increasing the role of the military.

Aristotle's treatise on rhetoric is an attempt to systematically describe civic rhetoric as a human art or skill ( techne ).

One crucial source of this insight was Heidegger's reading of Franz Brentano's treatise on Aristotle's manifold uses of the word " being ," a work which provoked Heidegger to ask what kind of unity underlies this multiplicity of uses.

Closely connected with this treatise was that upon ambiguous words or ideas, which, without doubt, corresponded to book E of Aristotle's Metaphysics.

Besides his translations of Aristotle's Metaphysics and Xenophon's Memorabilia, his most important work is a treatise directed against George of Trebizond, a vehement Aristotelian who had written a polemic against Plato, which was entitled In Calumniatorem Platonis (" Against the Slanderer of Plato ").

** Aristotle's treatise on the soul, de anima

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.

Agamben's political thought was originally founded on his readings of Aristotle's Politics, Nicomachean Ethics, and treatise On the Soul, as well as the exegetical traditions concerning these texts in late antiquity and the Middle Ages.

Aristotle's Poetics ( Greek:, c. 335 BCE ) is the earliest-surviving work of dramatic theory and the first extant philosophical treatise to focus on literary theory.

This was also a period of transmission: the Roman patrician Boethius ( c. 480 – 524 ) translated part of Aristotle's logical corpus, thus preserving it for the Latin West, and wrote the influential literary and philosophical treatise De consolatione Philosophiae ; Cassiodorus ( c. 485 – 585 ) founded an important library at the monastery of Vivarium near Squillace where many texts from Antiquity were to be preserved.

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.

Aristotle's treatise was not written in dialogue format: it systematises many of the concepts brought forward by Plato in his Republic, in some cases leading the author to a different conclusion as to what options are the most preferable.

This is a reference to Aristotle's work Organon, which was his treatise on logic and syllogism.

On the Heavens ( Greek: Περὶ οὐρανοῦ, Latin: De Caelo or De Caelo et Mundo ) is Aristotle's chief cosmological treatise: it contains his astronomical theory and his ideas on the concrete workings of the terrestrial world.

Aristotle's Rhetoric ( Greek: ΤΕΧΝΗ ΡΗΤΟΡΙΚΗ, Latin: Ars Rhetorica ) is an ancient Greek treatise on the art of persuasion, dating from the 4th century BC.

The Topics constitutes Aristotle's treatise on the art of dialectic — the invention and discovery of arguments in which the propositions rest upon commonly-held opinions or endoxa ( in Greek ).