Twotreatiseson music, the “Division of the Scale” (a basicallyPythagorean theory of music) and the “Introduction to Harmony,” were once mistakenly thought to be fromThe Elements of Music, a lost work attributed by Proclus to Euclid. ...
Some of the shorter treatises reappeared in the third edition as ordinary articles. Subjects of general interest, such as “Friendship” and “Infidelity,” began to appear, and biographical articles were increased in number and scope; “Paulo (Marco)” was included for the first time, and “...
The central-plan Christian church (circle, polygon, Greek cross, ellipse) fascinated the architects of the Renaissance with its symbolic and traditional values, and it is found in their drawings and treatises to the virtual exclusion of the more practical longitudinal basilicas that architects were ...
In the years between 1490 and 1495, the great program of Leonardo the writer (author of treatises) began. During this period, his interest in two fields—the artistic and the scientific—developed and shaped his future work, building toward a kind of creative dualism that sparked his inventiven...
the 2nd centuryce. It was at this same time thatlegal educationacquired its definitive tools, with the composition of systematic elementary treatises such as theInstitutionesof Gaius, manuals of procedure, commentaries on the law, andsystematiccollections of jurisprudence. This creative period perhaps ...
French philosopherDenis Diderotpenned one of the firsttreatisesto include significant discussion of the blind and education with his “Letter on the Blind for the Use of Those Who Can See” (1749). The essay suggested that the sense of touch could be honed for reading in blind persons, foresh...
December 6, 1478, Casatico, near Mantua [Italy] Died: February 2, 1529,Toledo[Spain] (aged 50) Notable Works: “The Courtier” Subjects Of Study: etiquette See all related content Baldassare Castiglione(born December 6, 1478, Casatico, nearMantua[Italy]—died February 2, 1529,Toledo[Spain...
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss-born philosopher, writer, and political theorist whose treatises and novels inspired the leaders of the French Revolution and the Romantic generation. Although he was the least academic of modern philosophers, he was also in
Democritus, ancient Greek philosopher, a central figure in the development of philosophical atomism and of the atomic theory of the universe. His works reportedly numbered 73, though only a few hundred fragments have survived, mostly from his treatises o
In the years between 1490 and 1495, the great program of Leonardo the writer (author of treatises) began. During this period, his interest in two fields—the artistic and the scientific—developed and shaped his future work,buildingtoward a kind of creative dualism that sparked his inventiveness...