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Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica

1687 work by Isaac Newton describing his laws of motion and gravitation

thumb|The first page of oldest surviving Panchatantra text in Sanskrit thumb|An 18th-century Pancatantra manuscript page in Braj ("The Talkative Turtle")

thumb|Didache manuscript The Didache (; ), also known as '''''The Lord's Teaching Through the Twelve Apostles to the Nations''''' (), is a brief anonymous early Christian treatise (ancient church order) written in Koine Greek, dated by modern scholars to the first or (less commonly) second century AD.

philosophical treatise written by Benedictus de Spinoza

Emile, or On Education

1762 essay by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The Spirit of the Laws

1748 treatise on political theory first published anonymously by Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu

thumb|Title page of Sir Isaac Newton's Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (1687)

Opticks, or a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of Light

Opticks: or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light is a collection of three books by Isaac Newton that was published in English in 1704 (a scholarly Latin translation appeared in 1706). The treatise analyses the fundamental nature of light by means of the refraction of light with prisms and lenses, the diffraction of light by closely spaced sheets of glass, and the behaviour of colour mixtures with spectral lights or pigment powders. Opticks was Newton's second major work on physical science and it is considered one of the three major works on optics during

Two Treatises of Government

work of political philosophy by John Locke

Discourse on Inequality

work by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

A Treatise of Human Nature

work by David Hume

Laelius de Amicitia

treatise on friendship by Cicero

Tractatus Theologico-Politicus

work by Baruch Spinoza

Brāhmasphuṭasiddhānta

The Brāhma-sphuṭa-siddhānta ("Correctly Established Doctrine of Brahma", abbreviated BSS) is a main work of Brahmagupta, written c. 628. This text of mathematical astronomy contains significant mathematical content, including the first good understanding of the role of zero, rules for manipulating both negative and positive numbers, a method for computing square roots, methods of solving linear and quadratic equations, rules for summing series, Brahmagupta's identity, and Brahmagupta theorem.

Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum

work of literature by Aristotle

Human Action, a treatise on economics.

non-fiction work by Ludwig von Mises

Some Thoughts Concerning Education

1693 book by John Locke

Passions of the Soul

essay by René Descartes

A Treatise on Painting

collection of Leonardo da Vinci's writings

Method of Fluxions

book by Isaac Newton

A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

1757 treatise on aesthetics by Edmund Burke

A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge

1710 philosophical work by George Berkeley

Liber de Coquina

medieval cookbook

Tractatus de Intellectus Emendatione

1677 essay by Benedictus de Spinoza

1845 essay by Alexander von Humboldt

First Grammatical Treatise

Treatise on Old Norse phonology

Discourse on Metaphysics

book by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Second Treatise of the Great Seth

3rd-century Gnostic text

On Crimes and Punishments

work of Cesare Beccaria

East Asian Mādhyamaka

Buddhist tradition in East Asia which represents the Indian Madhyamaka

Treatise on Tolerance

essay by Voltaire

Tractatus Politicus

essay by Benedictus de Spinoza

essay by Stendhal

Monetae cudendae ratio

1526 paper on coinage by Copernicus

Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity

book by Brethren of Purity

Man, Economy, and State

non-fiction work by Murray Rothbard

Treatise on the Power and Primacy of the Pope

work by Philip Melanchthon

Risalat al-Huquq

early Shia text about social and religious responsibilities attributed to Ali al-Sajjad Ali ibn al-Husayn

Treatise on the Resurrection

Valentinian treatise

Cuneus Prophetarum

Al-Risalah al-Dhahabiah

medical dissertation on health and remedies attributed to Ali ibn Musa al-Ridha

De sphaera mundi

book by Sacrobosco

Tractatus de purgatorio sancti Patricii

1180-84 Latin text by H. of Saltrey

Treatise of the Three Impostors

book denying all three Abrahamic religions

textbook on logic (1323) by William of Ockham

Mathematical Treatise in Nine Sections

mathematical text written by Chinese Southern Song dynasty mathematician Qin Jiushao in 1247

Theologus Autodidactus

novel by Ibn al-Nafis

Andreas Capellanus's treatise

Treatise On the Response of the Tao

Taoist book by Li Ying-Chang

Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie

book by Éliphas Lévi on ritual magic

The New Science

book by Giambattista Vico

A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism

written work by James Clerk Maxwell

L'art de toucher le clavecin

book by François Couperin

Treatise on Astrology of the Kaiyuan Era

Chinese astrology encyclopedia

Treatise on Instrumentation

book by Hector Berlioz

Deutsche Mythologie

book by Jacob Grimm

On the Harmony of Religions and Philosophy

book by Ibnu Rusyd (Averoes)

Treatise Against the Bogomils

Traité de l'harmonie réduite à ses principes naturels

book by Jean-Philippe Rameau