Treatise
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This article is about a literary form. For the musical composition by Cornelius Cardew, see Treatise (music).
A treatise is a formal and systematic exposition in writing of the principles of a subject, generally longer and more detailed than an essay. A lengthy discourse on some subject.
[edit] Noteworthy treatises
- Treatises have been written by various philosophers:
- Aristotle—various treatises
- Xenophon—Oeconomicus
- Chanakya—Arthashastra
- Claudius Ptolemaeus—Almagest
- John Locke—Two Treatises of Government
- David Hume—A Treatise of Human Nature
- René Descartes—Treatise on the World and Compendium Musicae
- Adam Smith—The Theory of Moral Sentiments and The Wealth of Nations,
- William Godwin—one of the first anarchist treatises
- Karl Marx—Das Kapital
- Niccolò Machiavelli—The Prince, and Discourses on Livy
- Hector Berlioz—Treatise on Instrumentation (sometimes, Treatise on Orchestration)
- Charles Darwin—The Origin of Species
- Nizam al-Mulk—Siyasatnama (The Book of Government)
- Other well-known treatises include:
- Sun Tzu—The Art of War
- Thomas Paine—Rights of Man, Common Sense, and The Age of Reason
- Geoffery Chaucer—The Parson's Tale
- Euclid—Elements
- Ptolemy—Geography (Treatise on cartography) [1]
- Treatises on architecture:
- Recent economics treatises have also been written:
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ J. L. Berggren, Alexander Jones; Ptolemy's Geography By Ptolemy, Princeton University Press, 2001 ISBN 0691092591
