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A serious book or article about a particular subject.

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  • A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
  • But the authorship of the treatise is by no means certain.
  • Watin's treatise is included s.v. Peinture, 6: 239 – 57 (plus plates?).
  • The only article which can be called a treatise is the Astronomer Royal's "Gravitation," founded on the method of
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