Anonymous treatises

Treatises published anonymously tend to be the dangerous ones: population, religion, money, and war, argued without a name to attack.

6 works.

Still unknown
A Brief Inquiry into the Natural Rights of Man
Date unrecorded · treatise
A nineteenth century treatise on natural rights published without an author's name. No attribution has entered the documented record, and the writer remains unidentified.
Still unknown
Musica enchiriadis
Date unrecorded · treatise
The ninth century treatise that first taught polyphony in the West. Long attributed to Hucbald, an attribution now rejected; its author is unknown.
Still unknown
Scolica enchiriadis
Date unrecorded · treatise
The ninth century dialogue commentary on Musica enchiriadis, foundational to Western music theory. Formerly attributed to Hucbald; author unknown.
Later revealed
Supernatural Religion: An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation
Date unrecorded · treatise
The anonymous 1874 critique of the New Testament's miracle evidence that convulsed Victorian theology. Walter Richard Cassels was identified in his lifetime.
Later revealed
An Essay on the Principle of Population
Published 1798 · treatise
The 1798 treatise arguing population growth outruns subsistence, published anonymously. Its author, T. R. Malthus, put his name to the expanded 1803 second edition.
Later revealed
Imperial Hubris: Why the West Is Losing the War on Terror
Published 2004 · treatise
The 2004 critique of the war on terror published as 'Anonymous'. Its author was identified in the press as CIA analyst Michael Scheuer, who acknowledged the book.