Quaestiones
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In rhetorical theory, Quaestiones (Latin:Questions), is a term for debatable points around which disputes are centered.
It is also is the title of numerous literary works, including in chronological order:
It is also is the title of numerous literary works, including in chronological order:
- the Tusculanae QuaestionesTusculanae QuaestionesThe Tusculanae Disputationes , is a series of books written by Cicero, around 45 BC, attempting to popularise Stoic philosophy in Ancient Rome...
of Roman statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero, around 45 BC - the Quaestiones of Roman jurist Sextus Caecilius AfricanusSextus Caecilius AfricanusSextus Caecilius Africanus was an ancient Roman jurist and a pupil of Salvius Julianus.Only one quote remains of his Epistulae of at least twenty books. Excerpts of his Quaestiones, a collection of legal cases in no particular order in nine books, are also reproduced in the Digests...
, around 160 - the Quaestiones disputatae de Veritate of Christian theologian Thomas Aquinas, 1256-1259
- the Quaestiones quaedam philosophicaeQuaestiones quaedam philosophicaeQuaestiones quaedam philosophicae is the name given to a set of notes that Isaac Newton kept for himself during his early years in Cambridge. They concern questions in the natural philosophy of the day that interested him...
of English physicist Isaac Newton (1661)