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A 'treatise' is a formal, usually lengthy, systematic discourse on some subject.

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Noteworthy treatises

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Noteworthy treatises

★ Treatises have been written by various philosophers:

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★ Aristotle—various treatises

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★ Claudius Ptolemaeus—''Almagest''

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★ John Locke—''Two Treatises of Government''

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★ David Hume—''A Treatise of Human Nature''

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★ René Descartes—''Treatise on the World'' and ''Compendium Musicae''

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★ William Godwin—one of the first anarchist treatises

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★ Karl Marx—''Das Kapital''

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★ Niccolò Machiavelli—''The Prince'', and ''Discourses on Livy''

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★ Hector Berlioz—''Treatise on Instrumentation'' (sometimes, ''Treatise on Orchestration'')

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★ Charles Darwin—''The Origin of Species''

★ Other well-known treatises include:

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★ Sun Tzu—''The Art of War''

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★ Thomas Paine—''Rights of Man'', ''Common Sense'', and ''The Age of Reason''

★ Recent treatises in the natural sciences include:

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★ ''Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology'', ''Volumes A'' through ''W'', edited by Raymond C. Moore, Roger L. Kaesler, and others (1953 to 2006, and continuing). Lawrence, Kansas: University of KansasPress; and Boulder, Colorado: Geological Society of America. -- Two recent volumes are, for example, ISBN 0813731356 (''Brachiopoda, Revised, Volume 5'', published 2006) and ISBN 0813731313 (''Porifera, Revised, Volume 3'', published 2004).

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★ ''Treatise on Marine Ecology and Paleoecology'', ''Volume 1: Ecology'' and ''Volume 2: Paleoecology'' edited respectively by Joel W. Hedgpeth and Harry S. Ladd (1957/1971). Washington, D.C. : WaverlyPress; and Boulder, Colorado: Geological Society of America.

★ Recent economics treatises have also been written:

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★ Ludwig von Mises—''Human Action''

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★ Murray N. Rothbard—''Man, Economy, and State''

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★ Paul Samuelson—''Foundations of Economic Analysis''

★ Treatises on architecture:

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★ ''De architectura'', Vitruvius (ca. 40 CE)

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★ ''De re aedificatoria'', Leon Battista Alberti(1450)

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★ ''I Quattro Libri dell’Architettura'', Andrea Palladio (1570)

★ EU Energy and transportation:

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★ Treatise project provides free training in environmental transport for energy, environmental and fleet professionals [1].

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★ Legal treatise