Though Aristotle wrote many elegant treatises and dialogues ( Cicero described his literary style as " a river of gold "), it is thought that the majority of his writings are now lost and only about one-third of the original works have survived.

Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sīnā ( Persian پور سينا Pur-e Sina " son of Sina "; c. 980 – 1037 ), commonly known as Ibn Sīnā or by his Latinized name Avicenna, was a Persian polymath, who wrote almost 450 treatises on a wide range of subjects, of which around 240 have survived.

On the subject of alchemy and chemistry, many treatises relating to Alchemy have been attributed to him, though in his authentic writings he had little to say on the subject, and then mostly through commentary on Aristotle.

He was known to have requested mathematical treatises concerning the astrolabe from Lupitus of Barcelona after he had returned to France.

Entire treatises have been written since to summarize the huge mass of law that sprang up from the 1966 revision of Rule 23.

These three treatises have been lost.

Galen may have written as many as 600 treatises, amounting to some 10 million words.

Some of Galen's treatises have appeared under many different titles over the years.

* Whilst Alberti's treatises on painting and architecture have been hailed as the founding texts of a new form of art, breaking from the gothic past, it is impossible to know the extent of their practical impact within his lifetime.

According to the early church heresiologists Simon is also supposed to have written several lost treatises, two of which bear the titles The Four Quarters of the World and The Sermons of the Refuter.

In return for protection and patronage Ockham wrote treatises that argued for King Louis to have supreme control over church and state in the Holy Roman Empire.

Besides a number of epistles, which are partly collected with the answers of those to whom they were written, Cyprian wrote a number of treatises, some of which have also the character of pastoral letters.

" However, we must keep in mind that he seems to have thoroughly studied the lengthy and complex Vulgate Bible, religious works and a number of historical treatises, which he quotes from quite frequently, particularly in the earlier books of the Historia Francorum.

In all, he wrote or edited five books relating to episcopacy ; the last two, treatises on the Ignatian epistles, were particular scholarly achievements that have largely survived modern scrutiny.

However, only a handful of these military treatises have survived, which includes the Wujing Zongyao written in 1044.

According to the same tradition, these 60 years are said to have been so symmetrically apportioned that each treatise required six months for the study of its Mishnah and the redaction of the traditional expositions of the same ( Gemara ), thus aggregating 30 years for the 60 treatises.

In the opening sentence of his 1880 article Venn declared: " Schemes of diagrammatic representation have been so familiarly introduced into logical treatises during the last century or so, that many readers, even those who have made no professional study of logic, may be supposed to be acquainted with the general nation and object of such devices.

There are twenty-six works in all, printed and manuscript, mostly ascetical or controversial treatises, several of which have been reprinted many times.

The Aristophanes scholia also cite him often, and he is known to have written treatises on Euripides, Ion, Phrynichus, Cratinus, Menander, and many of the Greek orators including Demosthenes, Isaeus, Hypereides, Deinarchus, and others.

The Muslim World and in particular the Iberian Peninsula, with their traditions of literacy uninterrupted by the Middle Ages, were instrumental in delivering ancient classic works to the growing intellectual circles and universities of Western Europe all through the 1100s, as books were produced there in large numbers and on paper for the first time in Europe, and with them full treatises on the sciences, especially astrology and medicine where illumination was required to have profuse and accurate representations with the text.

This is testified to not only by a number of treatises on individual subjects of zoology, of which, besides the titles, only fragments remain, but also by his books on Stones, his Enquiry into Plants, and On the Causes of Plants, which have come down to us entire.

Besides his books on the State, we find quoted various treatises on Education, on Royalty, on the Best State, on Political Morals, and particularly his works on the Laws, one of which, containing a recapitulation of the laws of various barbarian as well as Greek states, was intended to be a companion to Aristotle's outline of Politics, and must have been similar to it.

( It has two dedications, first to the Deity, secondly to James I, and copperplates ; it was to have been in two volumes, the first containing two treatises, the second three ; it was completed as far as the first section of the second treatise of the second volume.

A number of his declamations and descriptive treatises have been preserved.

The formalization of this term in the West in the 18th century was of course not new ; philosophical treatises had been written on it in the context of Hinduism for millennia.

Moreover, there has been extensive commentary on the relationship between the respective treatises of Wittgenstein ( Tractatus ) and Aquinas ( Summa Theologica ).

There had been pre-formal treatises on argument and dialectic, from authors such as Stephen Toulmin ( The Uses of Argument ), Nicholas Rescher ( Dialectics ), and van Eemeren and Grootendorst ( Pragma-dialectics ).

While it has been argued that this treatise was not widely distributed, an investigation of later Latin and French treatises reveals a number of excerpts from Adelard's work.

Previous treatises on harmony had been purely practical ; Rameau added a philosophical dimension, and the composer quickly rose to prominence in France as the " Isaac Newton of Music.

In 1615 Hall published A Recollection of such treatises as have been published ( 1615, 1617, 1621 ); in 1625 appeared his Works ( reprinted 1627, 1628, 1634, 1662 ).

Other valuable treatises and memoirs have been written by Strauch ( 1849 ), Jellett ( 1850 ), Otto Hesse ( 1857 ), Alfred Clebsch ( 1858 ), and Carll ( 1885 ), but perhaps the most important work of the century is that of Weierstrass.

His philosophical position with regard to his contemporaries had already been made clear in his critical work Reinhold, Fichte und Schelling ( 1803 ), and in the more systematic treatises System der Philosophie als evidente Wissenschaft ( 1804 ) and Wissen, Glaube und Ahnung ( 1805 ).

According to astrophysicist and math popularizer Mario Livio, since the publication of Luca Pacioli's Divina Proportione in 1509, when " with Pacioli's book, the Golden Ratio started to become available to artists in theoretical treatises that were not overly mathematical, that they could actually use ," many artists and architects have been fascinated by the presumption that the golden rectangle is considered aesthetically pleasing.

He published many philosophical text-books and treatises, and a number of sermons ; but his chief claim to remembrance rests on his elaborate Grundriss der Geschichte der Philosophie ( 2 vols, 1866 ), the 4th edition of which has been translated into English.

From references in later treatises such as the Sefer ha-Manhig by Rabbi Abraham ben Nathan ha-Yarḥi ( c. 1204 ), it appears that even at that later time the Spanish rite preserved certain European peculiarities that have since been eliminated in order to conform to the rulings of the Geonim and the official texts based on them.

An extant Ars grammatica ( discovered by Jovianus Pontanus in the 15th century ) and other unimportant treatises on similar subjects have been wrongly ascribed to him.

It may be that his treatises, circulating anonymously, were for a time considered as the work of another apologist, or there may have been other circumstances now lost.

There is no complete edition of his works, but several treatises have been published separately.

Several of Ochino's Prediche were also translated into English by a lady, Anna Cooke ( or Anne Cooke ; b. 1533 ) afterwards second wife of Sir Nicholas Bacon ; and he published numerous controversial treatises on the Continent.

It derived from " feodal " which was used in seventeenth-century French legal treatises ( 1614 ) and translated into English legal treatises as " feodal government ".

This collection consists of 122 of Galen's treatises, translated from the original Greek into Latin ( the text is presented in both languages ).

Abbadie is best known by his religious treatises, several of which were translated from the original French into other languages and had a wide circulation throughout Europe.

* Apart from his treatises on the arts, Alberti also wrote: Philodoxus (" Lover of Glory ", 1424 ), De commodis litterarum atque incommodis (" On the Advantages and Disadvantages of Literary Studies ", 1429 ), Intercoenales (" Table Talk ", c. 1429 ), Della famiglia (" On the Family ", begun 1432 ) Vita S. Potiti (" Life of St. Potitus ", 1433 ), De iure ( On Law, 1437 ), Theogenius (" The Origin of the Gods ", c. 1440 ), Profugorium ab aerumna (" Refuge from Mental Anguish ",), Momus ( 1450 ) and De Iciarchia (" On the Prince ", 1468 ). These and other works were translated and printed in Venice by the humanist Cosimo Bartoli in 1586.

These Jewish scholars translated dozens of philosophical and medical treatises into Latin, bringing the heritage of classical antiquity and the great contemporary Muslim culture to pre-Renaissance Europe.

Most in western Europe for the next few centuries did not understand the Greek language, and thus the works of Boethius, who saw what was happening and translated ancient Greek treatises into Latin, became the foundation of learning during this period.

Hero's treatises were edited and translated into Latin and Italian.

During later life he researched and wrote books on the early history of chemistry such as Les Origines de l ' alchimie ( 1885 ) and Introduction à l ' étude de la chimie des anciens et du moyen âge ( 1889 ), He also translated various old Greek, Syriac and Arabic treatises on alchemy and chemistry: Collection des anciens alchimistes grecs ( 1887 – 1888 ) and La Chimie au moyen âge ( 1893 ).

He translated the two treatises, the Mitacshara of Vijnaneshwara and the Dayabhaga of Jimutavahana, under the title Law of Inheritance.

The most famous of his treatises are La Philosophie morale des Stoiques, translated into English ( 1664 ) by Charles Cotton ; De la constance et consolation ès calamités publiques, which was composed during the siege of Paris in 1589, and applied the Stoic doctrine to present misfortunes ; and La Sainte Philosophie, in which religion and philosophy are intimately connected.

William also translated mathematical treatises by Hero of Alexandria and Archimedes.

Some of Abulafia ’ s treatises were translated into Latin and Italian in the circle of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, mostly by Flavius Mithridates, and Pico ’ s vision of Kabbalah was significantly influenced by his views.

Besides the books already mentioned and some smaller treatises Peters published a philosophical work entitled Willenswelt und Weltwille ( 1883 ), and a disquisition on early gold production entitled Das goldene Ophir Salomo's ( 1895 ), translated into English in 1898.

During those and the following years many excellent treatises on Mesmerism were published in England, and other works on the subject were translated from French and German ; Ashburner, Barth, Townshend, Colquhoun, William Gregory, Sandby, and some others, have left works on Mesmerism of great interest and value.

Arabic medical treatises, both those that were translations of Greek texts and those that were originally written in Arabic, had accumulated in the library of Montecassino, where they were translated into Latin ; thus the received lore of Hippocrates, Galen and Dioscorides was supplemented and invigorated by Arabic medical practice, known from contacts with Sicily and North Africa.

Samuel translated these three treatises both as an appendix to his commentary on Ecclesiastes ( see above ) and separately ( Steinschneider, ibid p. 199 ).

Judah Romano ( born 1286 ) translated Thomas's ideas from Latin into Hebrew under the title Ma ' amar ha-Mamschalim, together with other small treatises extracted from the " Contra Gentiles " (" Neged ha-Umot ").

He was the author of several moral and theological treatises which have been translated into German and French.

While engaged in this work, the two Jesuits wrote several mathematical treatises in the Manchu language which the emperor caused to be translated into Chinese, adding the prefaces himself.

He also wrote several treatises on classical archaeology, also translated into German by Welcker, Georg Zoegas Abhandlungen ( Göttingen, 1817 ).

The notable 12th century scholar and astrologer Abraham ibn Ezra translated two of Mashallah's astrological treatises into Hebrew: She ' elot and Ḳadrut ( Steinschneider, " Hebr.