G.J. Toomer is Professor Emeritus of the History of Mathematics at Brown University. He is the author of
Eastern Wisedome and Learning: The Study of Arabic in Seventeenth-Century England. He has also produced editions of the Arabic versions of Diocles »
On Burning Mirrors and Apollonius »s
Conics, and, with Francis S. Benjamin Jr., produced an edition of
Theorica planetarum by Campanus of Novara.
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Owen Gingerich & Donald G. York: Astronomy Revolution
Some 400 years after the first known patent application for a telescope by Hans Lipperhey, The Astronomy Revolution: 400 Years of Exploring the Cosmos surveys the effects of this instrument and explo …
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Ptolemy: Ptolemy’s Almagest
Ptolemy’s Almagest is one of the most influential scientific works in history. A masterpiece of technical exposition, it was the basic textbook of astronomy for more than a thousand years, and still …
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Owen Gingerich: God’s Planet
With exoplanets being discovered daily, Earth is still the only planet we know of that is home to creatures who seek a coherent explanation for the structure, origins, and fate of the universe, and o …
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Owen Gingerich: God’s Universe
We live in a universe with a very long history, a vast cosmos where things are being worked out over unimaginably long ages. Stars and galaxies have formed, and elements come forth from great stellar …
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