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Noteworthy treatises

• Treatises have been written by various philosophers
  Philosophy
  
  Philosophy is the study of general problems concerning matters such as existence, knowledge, truth, beauty, justice, validity, mind, and language....
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• Aristotle
  Aristotle
  
  Aristotle was a Greeks philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. He wrote on many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, Poetics , theater, music, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, ethics, biology and zoology....
  —various treatises
• Xenophon
  Xenophon
  
  Xenophon , son of Gryllus, of the deme Erchia of Athens, also known as Xenophon of Athens and Xenophon of Thebes, was a soldier, mercenary and a contemporary and admirer of Socrates....
  —Oeconomicus
• Cha?akya—Arthashastra
  Arthashastra
  
  The Arthashastra is an ancient Indian treatise on Public administration, economics policy and military strategy which identifies its author by the names Kautilya and , who are traditionally identified with Chanakya , who was a professor at Taxila and later the prime minister of the Maurya Empire....
  
• Claudius Ptolemaeus—Almagest
  Almagest
  
  Almagest is the Latin form of the Arabic language name of a mathematical and astronomical treatise proposing the complex motions of the stars and planetary paths, originally written in Greek language as by Ptolemy of Alexandria, Egypt, written in the 2nd century....
  
• John Locke
  John Locke
  
  John Locke was an English philosopher. Locke is considered the first of the British Empiricism, but is equally important to social contract theory....
  —Two Treatises of Government
  Two Treatises of Government
  
  The Two Treatises of Government is a work of political philosophy published anonymously in 1689 by John Locke. The First Treatise attacks patriarchalism in the form of sentence-by-sentence refutation of Robert Filmer's Patriarcha and the Second Treatise outlines a theory of political or Civil_society#Pre-modern_history based...
  
• David Hume
  David Hume
  
  David Hume was a Scotland philosopher, economist, historian and a key figure in the history of Western philosophy and the Scottish Enlightenment....
  —A Treatise of Human Nature
  A Treatise of Human Nature
  
  A Treatise of Human Nature is a book by Scotland philosopher David Hume, first published in 1739?1740.The full title of the Treatise is 'A Treatise of Human Nature: Being an Attempt to introduce the experimental Method of Reasoning into Moral Subjects'....
  
• René Descartes
  René Descartes
  
  Ren? Descartes , , also known as Renatus Cartesius , was a French philosophy, mathematician, scientist, and writer who spent most of his adult life in the Dutch Republic....
  —Treatise on the World and Compendium Musicae
• William Godwin
  William Godwin
  
  William Godwin was an English journalist, political philosophy and novelist. He is considered one of the first exponents of utilitarianism, and one of the first modern proponents of philosophical anarchism....
  —one of the first anarchist treatises
• Karl Marx
  Karl Marx
  
  Karl Heinrich Marx was a Germanphilosophy, political economy, historian, sociologist, humanism, political theorist and revolutionary credited as the founder of communism....
  —Das Kapital
  Das Kapital
  
  is an extensive treatise on political economy written in German language by Karl Marx and edited in part by Friedrich Engels. The book is a critical analysis of capitalism....
  
• Niccolò Machiavelli
  Niccolò Machiavelli
  
  Niccol? di Bernardo dei Machiavelli is the philosopher, writer, and Italian politician considered the founder of modern political science. As a Renaissance Man, he was a Diplomacy, Political philosophy, musician, poet, and playwright, but, foremost, he was a Civil Servant of the Florence....
  —The Prince
  The Prince
  
  Il Principe is a politics treatise by the Florence Civil service and Political philosophy Niccol? Machiavelli. Originally called De Principatibus , it was originally written in 1513, but not published until 1532, five years after Machiavelli's death....
  , and Discourses on Livy
  Discourses on Livy
  
  The Discourses on Livy is a work of political history and philosophy composed in the early 16th century by the famed Florentine public servant and political theorist Niccol? Machiavelli , best known as the author of The Prince....
  
• Hector Berlioz
  Hector Berlioz
  
  Louis Hector Berlioz was a French Romantic music composer and guitarist, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Requiem . Berlioz made great contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation and by utilizing huge orchestral forces for his works; as a conductor, he performed several c...
  —Treatise on Instrumentation
  Treatise on Instrumentation
  
  Grand Trait? d?Instrumentation et d?Orchestration Modernes, abbreviated in English language as the Treatise on Instrumentation is a technical study of Western culture musical instruments, written by Hector Berlioz....
   (sometimes, Treatise on Orchestration)
• Charles Darwin
  Charles Darwin
  
  Charles Robert Darwin Royal Society was an English people natural history who realised and presented compelling evidence that all species of life have evolution over time from common descent, through the process he called natural selection....
  —The Origin of Species
  The Origin of Species
  
  Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species is a seminal work in scientific literature and a landmark work in evolutionary biology. The book's full title is On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life....
  
• Nizam al-Mulk
  Nizam al-Mulk
  
  Abu Ali al-Hasan al-Tusi Nizam al-Mulk was a celebrated Persians scholar and vizier of the Seljuqs....
  —Siyasatnama
  Siyasatnama
  
  Siyasatnama / Siyasat nameh , also known as Siyar al-muluk, is the most famous work by Nizam al-Mulk, the founder of Nizamiyyah schools in medieval Persia and vizier to the Seljuq dynasty sultans Alp Arslan and Malik Shah....
   (The Book of Government)

• Other well-known treatises include:
• Sun Tzu
  Sun Tzu
  
  Sun Tzu , also called Sun Wu , is traditionally believed to be the author of The Art of War, sometimes called the Sun Tzu, an influential ancient China book on military strategy considered to be a prime example of Taoism strategy....
  —The Art of War
  The Art of War
  
  The Art of War is a China military science treatise that was written during the 6th century BC by Sun Tzu. Composed of 13 chapters, each of which is devoted to one aspect of warfare, it has long been praised as the definitive work on military strategy and Military tactics of its time....
  
• Thomas Paine
  Thomas Paine
  
  Thomas Paine was a UK pamphleteer, revolutionary, Radicalism , inventor, and intellectual. He lived and worked in Britain until age 37, when he emigrated to the British American colonies, in time to participate in the American Revolution....
  —Rights of Man
  Rights of Man
  
  Rights of Man , by Thomas Paine, posits that popular political revolution is permissible when a government does not safeguard its people, their natural rights, and their national interests....
  , Common Sense
  Common Sense (pamphlet)
  
  Common Sense was a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine. It was first published anonymously on January 10, 1776, during the American Revolution....
  , and The Age of Reason
  The Age of Reason
  
  The Age of Reason: Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology, a deistic treatise written by eighteenth-century British radical and American revolutionary Thomas Paine, critiques institutionalized religion and challenges the Biblical inerrancy....
  
• Geoffery Chaucer—The Parson's Tale
• Euclid
  Euclid
  
  Euclid , floruit 300 BC, also known as Euclid of Alexandria, was a Greek mathematics and is often referred to as the Father of Geometry. He was active in Alexandria during the reign of Ptolemy I ....
  —Elements
  Euclid's Elements
  
  Euclid's Elements is a mathematics and geometry treatise consisting of 13 books written by the Greek mathematics Euclid in Alexandria circa 300 BC....
  

• Recent treatises in the natural science
  Natural science
  
  In science, the term natural science refers to a methodological naturalism approach to the study of the universe, which is understood as obeying rules or law of nature origin....
  s include:
• Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology
  Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology
  
  The Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology published by the Geological Society of America and the University of Kansas Press, is a definitive multi-authored work of some 50 volumes, written by more than 300 paleontologists, and covering every Scientific classification, and genus of fossil and Extant taxon invertebrate animals....
  , Volumes A through W, edited by Raymond C. Moore, Roger L. Kaesler, and others (1953 to 2006, and continuing). Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas
  University of Kansas
  
  The University of Kansas is a public research university with campuses located in Lawrence, Kansas, Kansas City, Kansas, and Overland Park, Kansas, Kansas with the main campus being located atop Mount Oread in Lawrence....
  Press; and Boulder, Colorado: Geological Society of America
  Geological Society of America
  
  The is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the advancement of the geosciences. The society was founded in New York, New York in 1888 by James Hall, James D....
  . -- Two recent volumes are, for example, ISBN 0813731356 (Brachiopoda, Revised, Volume 5, published 2006) and ISBN 0813731313 (Porifera, Revised, Volume 3, published 2004).
• Treatise on Marine Ecology and Paleoecology, Volume 1: Ecology
  Ecology
  
  Ecology is the science study of the distribution and Abundance of life and the interactions between organisms and their nature environment ....
   and Volume 2: Paleoecology
  Paleoecology
  
  Paleoecology uses data from fossils and subfossils to reconstruct the ecosystems of the past. It includes the study of fossil organisms and their bromalites and other trace fossils in terms of their Biological life cycle, their living interactions, their natural environment, their manner of death and burial....
   edited respectively by Joel W. Hedgpeth and Harry S. Ladd (1957/1971). Washington, D.C. : Waverly
  Waverly
  
  Waverly is an English female given name meaning "quaking aspen".Waverly may also refer to:...
  Press; and Boulder, Colorado: Geological Society of America
  Geological Society of America
  
  The is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the advancement of the geosciences. The society was founded in New York, New York in 1888 by James Hall, James D....
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• Recent economics
  Economics
  
  File:Ballard Farmers' Market - vegetables.jpgEconomics is the Social sciences that studies the Production theory basics, Distribution , and Consumption of Good and Service ....
   treatises have also been written:
• Ludwig Von Mises
  Ludwig von Mises
  
  Ludwig Heinrich Edler von Mises was an Austrian economics, philosopher, and liberalism who had a major influence on the modern libertarianism movement....
  —Human Action
  Human Action
  
  Human Action: A Treatise on Economics is the magnum opus of the Austrian School economist Ludwig von Mises. It presents a case for laissez-faire capitalism based on Mises' praxeology, or rational investigation of human decision-making....
  
• Paul Samuelson
  Paul Samuelson
  
  Paul Anthony Samuelson is an United States neoclassical economist economist known for his contributions to many fields of economics, beginning with his general statement of the comparative statics method in his 1947 book Foundations of Economic Analysis....
  —Foundations of Economic Analysis
  Foundations of Economic Analysis
  
  Foundations of Economic Analysis is a book by Paul A. Samuelson published in 1947 .It sought to demonstrate a common mathematical structure underlying multiple branches of economics from two basic principles: mathematical programming behavior of agent and stability of Economic equilibrium as to economic systems ....
  
• Milton Friedman
  Milton Friedman
  
  Milton Friedman was an United States economist, statistician and public intellectual, and a recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences....
  —Capitalism and Freedom
  Capitalism and Freedom
  
  Capitalism and Freedom is a book by Milton Friedman originally published in 1962 in literature which discusses the role of economic capitalism in Liberalism society....
  

• Treatises on architecture
  Architecture
  
  The term architecture can refer to a process, a profession or documentation.As a process, architecture is the activity of designing and construction buildings and other physical structures by a person or a computer, primarily to provide shelter....
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• De architectura
  De architectura
  
  File:De Architectura027.jpg is a treatise on architecture written by the Ancient Rome architect Vitruvius and dedicated to his patron, the emperor Caesar Augustus as a guide for Caesar Augustus#Building projects....
  , Vitruvius
  Vitruvius
  
  File:Vitruvius.jpgMarcus Vitruvius Pollio was a Ancient Rome writer, architect and engineer , active in the 1st century BC. By his own description Vitruvius served as a Ballista , the third class of arms in the military offices....
   (ca. 40 CE)
• De re aedificatoria
  De Re Aedificatoria
  
  De re aedificatoria is a classic architectural treatise written by Leon Battista Alberti between 1443 and 1452. Although largely dependent on Vitruvius' De architectura, it was the first theoretical book on the subject written in the Italian Renaissance and in 1485 became the first printed book on architecture....
  , Leon Battista Alberti (1450)
• I Quattro Libri dell’Architettura
  I Quattro Libri dell'Architettura
  
  I Quattro Libri dell'Architettura is an Italian treatise on architecture by the architect Andrea Palladio . It was first published in four volumes in 1570 in Venice, illustrated with engravings after the author's own drawings....
  , Andrea Palladio
  Andrea Palladio
  
  Andrea Palladio , was a Republic of Venice architect, widely considered the most influential architect in the Architectural history. He was influenced by Roman and Greek architecture....
   (1570)

• EU Energy and transportation:
• Treatise project provides free training in environmental transport for energy, environmental and fleet
  Fleet
  
  Fleet may refer to:...
   professionals .

See also

• Legal treatise
  Legal treatise
  
  A legal treatise is a scholarly legal publication containing all the law relating to a particular area, such as criminal law or trusts and estates....