Gerald J. Toomer
Contributor
Website : Gerald Toomer at the British Academy
Professor Emeritus of the History of Mathematics, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. Translator and editor of Diocles' On Burning Mirrors; author of John Seldon: A Life in Scholarship and Eastern Wisedome and Learning: The Study of Arabic in Seventeenth-Century England.
Primary Contributions (1)
Archimedes was the most famous mathematician and inventor in ancient Greece. He is especially important for his discovery of the relation between the surface and volume of a sphere and its circumscribing cylinder. He is known for his formulation of a hydrostatic principle (known as Archimedes’…
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Publications (3)
DIOCLES, On Burning Mirrors The Arabic Translation of the Lost Greek Original (January 2012)
This publication would not have been what it is without the help of many institutions and people, which I acknowledge most gratefully. I thank the Central Library and Documentation Center, Iran, and its director, Mr. Iraji Afshar, for permission to publish photo graphs of that part of ms. 392 of the Shrine Library, Meshhed, containing Diocles' treatise. I also thank the authorities of the Shrine Library, and especially Mr. Ahmad GolchTn-Ma'anT, for their cooperation in providing photographs of the...
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John Selden: A Life in Scholarship (Oxford-Warburg Studies) - 2 Volume set (April 2009)
Review
"Toomer's survey of Selden's extraordinary scholarly vocation is one of the most important books on seventeenth-century England to come along in years...Its thorough and deeply learned synopses of Selden's works are invaluable treasures for future scholars working on early modern Europe."--Milton Quarterly
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Professor Toomer's two-volume set is not only an indispensable reference work but also provides the first thorough treatment of the scholarship...
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"Toomer's survey of Selden's extraordinary scholarly vocation is one of the most important books on seventeenth-century England to come along in years...Its thorough and deeply learned synopses of Selden's works are invaluable treasures for future scholars working on early modern Europe."--Milton Quarterly
Product Description
Professor Toomer's two-volume set is not only an indispensable reference work but also provides the first thorough treatment of the scholarship...
Eastern Wisedome and Learning The Study of Arabic in Seventeenth-century England (1996)
This book narrates the extraordinary growth in the study of Arabic in England from the late sixteenth century, when it was almost non-existent, to the end of the seventeenth. By its high point around 1666, England was preeminent among European countries in the study of Arabic. Permanent chairs of Arabic had been established at Oxford and Cambridge, and specialized presses in Oxford and London had produced important Arabic works. In this masterly and original study, Professor Toomer gives the first...
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