Avesta Avesta The Avesta is the primary collection of religious texts of Zoroastrianism, composed in the otherwise unrecorded Avestan language. The Avesta texts fall into several different categories, arranged either by dialect, or by usage. The principal text in the liturgical group is the "Yasna", which takes its name from the Yasna ceremony, Zoroastrianism's primary act of worship, and at which the "Yasna" text is recited. The most important portion of the "Yasna" texts are the five Gathas, consisting of seventeen hymns attributed to Zoroaster himself. These hymns, together with five other short Old Avestan texts that are also part of
The Economic Writings of Sir William Petty The Economic Writings of Sir William Petty The Economic Writings of Sir William Petty is a book with texts, written by William Petty (1623-1687), and published in 1899 by Charles Henry Hull (1864-1936), in two volumes. The "Economic Writings" were published together with an introduction about the life and work of William Petty, and did also contain "Natural and Political Observations upon the Bills of Mortality," by John Graunt. This edition of the economic texts of William Petty, the scientist, who is often been called the founder of political economy, is used as a reference work ever since its publication.