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The word "treatise" has its origins in the early 14th century, derived from the Anglo-French term tretiz, which itself comes from the Old French traitis, meaning "treatise" or "account." This Old French term is rooted in the verb traitier, which means "to deal with" or "to set forth in speech or writing". [3]
A Treatise on the Astrolabe; A Treatise on the Binomial Theorem; A Treatise on the Circle and the Sphere; Treatise on the Faith and Practice of the Free Will Baptists; A Treatise on the Family; Treatise on the Gods; Treatise on the Law of the Prerogatives of the Crown; Treatise on the Left Emanation; A Treatise on the Patriarchal, or Co ...
The Treatise (original title Le Tretiz) is an Anglo-Norman poem written in the mid-13th century by Walter of Bibbesworth, addressed to Dionisie de Munchensi, with the aim of helping her to teach her children French, the language of the Norman aristocracy. It was a popular text in medieval England, and is a very early example of a book intended ...
The Treatise of Love (Tretyse of Loue) is an English prose text first printed around 1493. Its printing was the work of Wynkyn de Worde , who took over William Caxton 's printing business in 1491, and printed the Treatise before he began publishing under his own name in 1494. [ 1 ]
A painting of Jonathan Swift. Swift's essay is widely held to be one of the greatest examples of sustained irony in the history of English literature.Much of its shock value derives from the fact that the first portion of the essay describes the plight of starving beggars in Ireland, so that the reader is unprepared for the surprise of Swift's solution when he states: "A young healthy child ...
Aristotle's Poetics is one of the first extant philosophical treatise to attempt a rigorous taxonomy of literature. [5] The work was lost to the Western world for a long time. It was available in the Middle Ages and early Renaissance only through a Latin translation of an Arabic commentary written by Averroes and translated by Hermannus ...
Bracket arm clusters containing cantilevers, Yingzao Fashi. The Yingzao Fashi (Chinese: 營造法式; pinyin: yíngzàofǎshì; lit. 'Treatise on Architectural Methods or State Building Standards') is a technical treatise on architecture and craftsmanship written by the ancient Chinese author Li Jie (李誡; 1065–1110), [1] the Directorate of Buildings and Construction during the mid Song ...
Medieval Latin readers had access to many Hermetic treatises of a 'technical' nature (astrological, alchemical, or magical, often translated from the Arabic). [4]However, the Asclepius was the only Hermetic treatise belonging to the 'religio-philosophical' category that was available in Latin before Marsilio Ficino's (1433–1499) and Lodovico Lazzarelli's (1447–1500) translation of the 17 ...