The Treatise on Man (French: L'Homme) is an unfinished treatise by René Descartes written in the 1630s and published posthumously, firstly in 1662 in Latin, then in 1664 in French by Claude Clerselier. The 1664 edition is accompanied by a short text, The Description of the Human Body and All Its Functions (La description du corps humain et de toutes ses fonctions), also known as the Treatise on the Formation of the Foetus (Traité de la formation du fœtus), the remarks of Louis La Forge and the translated preface from the Latin edition by Florent Schuyl.
A treatise is a formal and systematic written discourse on some subject concerned with investigating or exposing the principles of the subject and its...
A Treatise of Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning into Moral Subjects (1739–40) is a book by Scottish philosopher...
Two Treatises of Government (full title: Two Treatises of Government: In the Former, The False Principles, and Foundation of Sir Robert Filmer, and His...
Quetelet's original sampling methods. As noted in his primary work, A TreatiseonMan and the Development of His Faculties, the data from which Quetelet...
Treatiseon Law is Thomas Aquinas' major work of legal philosophy. It forms questions 90–108 of the Prima Secundæ ("First [Part] of the Second [Part]")...
place in which all our thoughts are formed". In the Treatise of Man, he described conceptual models of man, namely creatures created by God, which consist...
The Tractatus de herbis (Treatiseon Herbs), sometimes called Secreta Salernitana (Secrets of Salerno), is a textual and figural tradition of herbals...
reaches its zenith in man. The First Part, therefore, ends with the treatiseonman. The second part of the Summa deals with man's purpose (the meaning...
translation, it is titled TreatiseonMan, but a literal translation would be "OnMan and the Development of his Faculties, or Essay on Social Physics"). In...
Treatiseon the Gods (1930) is H. L. Mencken's survey of the history and philosophy of religion, and was intended as an unofficial companion volume to...
Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception or Christian Occult Science, An Elementary Treatise Upon Man's Past Evolution, Present Constitution and Future Development Independent...
The Treatiseon the Resurrection is an ancient Gnostic or quasi-Gnostic Christian text which was found at Nag Hammadi, Egypt. It is also sometimes referred...
ordained a priest in 1664. In 1664, Malebranche first read Descartes' TreatiseonMan, an account of the physiology of the human body. Malebranche's biographer...
his contemporaries, and the De pictura treatise by Leon Battista Alberti. Leonardo produced the Vitruvian Man in Milan and the work was probably passed...
A Treatiseon the Binomial Theorem is a fictional work of mathematics by the young Professor James Moriarty, the criminal mastermind and archenemy of...
A Treatiseon Probability , published by John Maynard Keynes in 1921, provides a much more general logic of uncertainty than the more familiar and straightforward...
A Treatiseon White Magic is a book by Alice Bailey. It is considered to be among the most important by students of her writings, as it is less abstract...
The Treatiseon the Reintegration of Beings into Their Original Estate, Virtues and Powers both Spiritual and Divine (French: Traité de la Réintégration...
each of which could produce only one specific sound. According to the treatiseOnMan, His Mortality, His Immortality (1790) of Alexander Radishchev, the...
where in the accompanying treatise a healer might find a particular helpful procedure. For instance, in a German Wound Man now in the Wellcome Library...