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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