Treatise

Even in the 19th century, a treatise by Lord Kelvin and Peter Guthrie Tait's, which helped define much of modern physics, was titled Treatise on Natural Philosophy (1867).

One is the astronomical treatise that is now known as the Almagest (in Greek Η μεγάλη Σύνταξις, "The Great Treatise").

Porphyry says (Life ch. 16.11) that he gave the treatise the Title "Against the Gnostics" (he is presumably also responsible for the titles of the other sections of the cut-up treatise).

At the last session of the quarter, in the spring of 2011, they discussed Aristotle’s treatise Metaphysics, and what it means to be one—as opposed to more than one.

Being a Hornets fan is a treatise in vacillating hope and deflation.

Digital face recognition, surveillance, and even deepfakes are hinted at in this spirited, sometimes hilarious film that verges on a treatise on identity and self-representation.

In 1963, Lee wrote the 3 volume treatise, Aviation Accident Law, the legal industry's leading resource for aviation accident attorneys that continues to be edited and updated by Kreindler attorneys each year.

The treatise presents a three-way approach to understanding the world through materialism, theology and conscience.

Her treatise on why democracy matters and how political apathy is for losers would have been more pertinent when an election was looming and the country still in the throes of Tory misrule; such is the way of publishing and its immovable deadlines.

Ray Davies delivered a treatise on bucolic living that’s beautifully realized.

The text on the flag, displayed above a New England pine tree, refers to a passage from the English philosopher John Locke in his Second Treatise on Government.

Unlike Dumas’s novel (which is nowadays considered to be something of a moral treatise promoting “family values”), Verdi’s opera strikes a note of sympathy with its titular protagonist, the courtesan Violetta Valéry.

A century ago Admiral Fiske wrote a treatise portraying The Navy as a Fighting Machine.

I leave this treatise with an unfortunate experience I had with such pizza in my early years.

In 1921, William Newbold, a philosopher at the University of Pennsylvania who had an interest in cryptography, claimed that a 13th-century friar wrote it as a scientific treatise.

It is a very different kind of book; a travel story, a family story, very much a philosophical treatise, but perhaps most interesting to me was the tension of a man describing his own insanity (see the last book below).

Mary Wollstonecraft is best known as the writer of the pathbreaking ‘A Vindication of the Rights of Women’ (1792), an early treatise on gender equality.

That’s the argument presented by Rutger Bregman in this stimulating treatise on reshaping society, which arrives at a good moment for two reasons.

This discussion (the treatise) focusses on change initiative by government in the Ugandan economy.

This is a subject that merits immense future study but is unfortunately out of this treatise’s scope.