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  | | Eastern Wisedome and Learning(1st Edition) The Study of Arabic in Seventeenth-Century England by G. J. Toomer, Clarendon Press Hardcover, 396 Pages, Published 1996 by Clarendon Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-820291-2, ISBN: 0-19-820291-1 "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 pre-eminent 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 Arabic works. The Professor ..." |
 | | Ptolemy's Almagest(Updated) by G. J. Toomer, Owen Gingerich, Claudius Ptolemy Paperback, 712 Pages, Published 1998 by Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-691-00260-6, ISBN: 0-691-00260-6 " 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 is the main source for our knowledge of ancient astronomy. This translation, based on the standard Greek text of Heiberg, makes the work accessible to English readers in an intelligible and reliable form. It contains numerous corrections ..." |
 | | Greek Thought(1st Edition) A Guide to Classical Knowledge (Harvard University Press Reference Library) by Jacques Brunschwig, Catherine Porter, Julia Annas, Serge Bardet, Annie Bélis, Enrico Berti, Henry Blumenthal, Richard Bodéüs, Luc Brisson, Monique Canto-Sperber, Paul Cartledge, Barbara Cassin, Maurice Caveing, François De Gandt, Armelle Debru, John Dillon, Michael Frede, D. J. Furley, François Hartog, Carl Huffman, Edward Hussey, Christian Jacob, Jacques Joanna, José Kany-Turpin, Wilbur Knorr, André Laks, Alain Le Boulluec, Carlos Lévy, Mario Mignucci, Donald Morrison, Claude Mossé, Oswyn Murray, Carlo Natali, John David North, Martin Ostwald, Pierre Pellegrin, Gilbert Romeyer Dherbey, Malcolm Schofield, R. W. Sharples, Pierre Somville, G. J. Toomer, Robert Wardy, Anthony A. Long, Françoise Frazier Hardcover, 1,056 Pages, Published 2000 by Belknap Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-00261-6, ISBN: 0-674-00261-X " Ancient Greek thought is the essential wellspring from which the intellectual, ethical, and political civilization of the West draws and to which, even today, we repeatedly return. In more than sixty essays by an international team of scholars, this volume explores the full breadth and reach of Greek thought--investigating what the Greeks knew as well as what they thought about what they knew, and what they believed, invented, and unde ..." |
 | | Campanus of Novara & Medieval Planetary Theory "Theorica Planetarum" (Medieval Science Series; No. 16) (English and Latin Edition) by G. J. Toomer, Francis S. Benjamin, Campanus Of Novara, Novariensis Campanus Hardcover, 490 Pages, Published 1972 by Univ Of Wisconsin Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-299-05960-6, ISBN: 0-299-05960-X "100% Satisfaction is Guaranteed! There are no problems in page content and in the paper. There are no problems except minor faults. For New condition books in our store; You will be the first user. You will be the first to open the book cover. For Used condition books in our store; It shows signs of wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. All pages and cover are intact , but may have aesthetic iss ..." |
 | | John Selden A Life in Scholarship Vol 2 by G. J. Toomer Hardcover, 536 Pages, Published 2009 by N/A ISBN-13: 978-0-19-920702-2, ISBN: 0-19-920702-X |
 | | John Selden Vol 1 Ows C by G. J. Toomer Hardcover, 437 Pages, Published 2009 by N/A ISBN-13: 978-0-19-920701-5, ISBN: 0-19-920701-1 |
 | | Redefining Geometrical Exactness(1st Edition) Descartes' Transformation of the Early Modern Concept of Construction (Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences) by G. J. Toomer, Jed Z. Buchwald, J. Lutzen, Beate Carriere, Arnold Willemer Hardcover, 470 Pages, Published 2001 by Springer ISBN-13: 978-0-387-95090-7, ISBN: 0-387-95090-7 "In his "Géométrie" of 1637 Descartes achieved a monumental innovation of mathematical techniques by introducing what is now called analytic geometry. Yet the key question of the book was foundational rather than technical: When are geometrical objects known with such clarity and distinctness as befits the exact science of geometry? Classically, the answer was sought in procedures of geometrical construction, in particular by ruler and c ..." |
 | | Ptolemy's Almagest(1st Edition) by G.J. Toomer, And Toomer Ptolemy Hardcover, 693 Pages, Published 1984 by Springer-Verlag ISBN-13: 978-0-387-91220-2, ISBN: 0-387-91220-7 "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 is the main source for our knowledge of ancient astronomy. This translation, based on the standard Greek text of Heiberg, makes the work accessible to English readers in an intelligible and reliable form. It contains numerous corrections der ..." |
 | | The Almagest (Duckworth classical, medieval, and renaissance editions) by Claudius Ptolemaeus, G. J. Toomer Hardcover, 704 Pages, Published 1984 by Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd ISBN-13: 978-0-7156-1588-1, ISBN: 0-7156-1588-2 "MGH: Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Auctorum AntiquissimorumTomus XIII, Chronica Minora Saec. IV. V. VI. ... Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 1 16 no. 3, June 1972 ... Pedersen: Olaf Pedersen, A Survey of the Almagest. (Acta Historica Scientiarum Naturalium et Medicinalium Vol. 30). Odense ... Petersen, Viggo M., and Schmidt, Olaf, 'The Determination of the Longitude of the Apogee of the Orbit of the Sun according ..." |
 | | John Selden(1st Edition) A Life in Scholarship (Oxford-Warburg Studies) - 2 Volume set by G. J. Toomer, Charles Hope, Ian Macleay Hardcover, 1,012 Pages, Published 2009 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-920703-9, ISBN: 0-19-920703-8 "Professor Toomer's two-volume set is not only an indispensable reference work but also provides the first thorough treatment of the scholarship of John Selden, acknowledged as the most learned man of 17th-century England. All of his numerous published works, especially in the fields of history, law, and Hebraica, are critically examined and described in detail. The narrative also relates his writings to contemporary events, in the Civil ..." |
 | | Emergence of the Theory of Lie Groups An Essay in the History of Mathematics 1869–1926 (Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences) by Thomas Hawkins, Jed Z. Buchwald, J. Lutzen, G. J. Toomer Hardcover, 566 Pages, Published 2000 by Springer ISBN-13: 978-0-387-98963-1, ISBN: 0-387-98963-3 "The great Norwegian mathematician Sophus Lie developed the general theory of transformations in the 1870s, and the first part of the book properly focuses on his work. In the second part the central figure is Wilhelm Killing, who developed structure and classification of semisimple Lie algebras. The third part focuses on the developments of the representation of Lie algebras, in particular the work of Elie Ca ..." |
 | | Diocles on burning mirrors The Arabic translation of the lost Greek original (Sources in the history of mathematics and physical sciences) by G.J. Toomer Hardcover, 249 Pages, Published 1976 by Springer-Verlag ISBN-13: 978-0-387-07478-8, ISBN: 0-387-07478-3 "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 GolchT ..." |
 | | The Arabic Version of Euclid's Optics Edited and Translated with Historical Introduction and Commentary Volume I (Sources in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences) (v. 16) by Elaheh Kheirandish, G. J. Hardcover, 247 Pages, Published 1998 by Springer ISBN-13: 978-0-387-98523-7, ISBN: 0-387-98523-9 |
 | | Mediterranean and Middle East Volume I The Early Successes Against Italy (to May 1941). HISTORY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR: UNITED KINGDOM MILITARY SERIES: OFFICIAL CAMPAIGN HISTORY - Hardcover by J. R. M. Butler . Maj.-Gen .S.O. Playfair with Cmdr. G.M.S.Stitt, R.N., Brig. G.J.C .Molony, Air Vice-Marshal S.E.Toomer Hardcover, 612 Pages, Published 2021 by Naval & Military Press ISBN-13: 978-1-78331-814-8, ISBN: 1-78331-814-7 |
 | | A History of Inverse Probability From Thomas Bayes to Karl Pearson (Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences) by Andrew I. Dale Hardcover, 495 Pages, Published 1995 by Springer ISBN-13: 978-0-387-97620-4, ISBN: 0-387-97620-5 |
 | | Mediterranean and Middle East Volume I The Early Successes Against Italy (to May 1941). HISTORY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR: UNITED KINGDOM MILITARY SERIES: OFFICIAL CAMPAIGN HISTORY - Paperback by J.R.M. Butler . Major-General S.O. Playfair with Commander G.M.S. Stitt, RN, Brigadier C.J.C. Molony, Air Vice-Marshal S.E. Toomer Paperback, Published 2021 by Naval & Military Press ISBN-13: 978-1-78331-760-8, ISBN: 1-78331-760-4 |
 | | DIOCLES, On Burning Mirrors(Reprint) The Arabic Translation of the Lost Greek Original (Sources in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences) by G. J. Toomer Paperback, 252 Pages, Published 1976 by Springer ISBN-13: 978-3-642-80983-5, ISBN: 3-642-80983-9 "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 ..." |
 | | Sources in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences Ser. Apollonius: Conics Books V to VII. the Arabic Translation of the Lost Greek Original in the Version of the Banu Musa : Volume I: Introduction, Text, and Translation. Volume II: Commentary, Figures, and Indexes 9 by Gerald J. Toomer 890 Pages, Published 2012 by Springer Science & Business Media ISBN-13: 978-1-4613-8985-9, ISBN: 1-4613-8985-2 "... or *-s J-s J st ck- J - or “Go J/5 - La Jo, F & J -- Jo as Jé so - G -- ~~ & 9.xx & J. Js -- J| “...] Jo so. 3 to all b2+4 Ju Ji - * sol J's J| -- & co- J & Joo ol, oxo * +--- so co- lo -- to- “... J. -->, still coal 2solill & J&J 3 & LS Cossa (i. * - J --> r3+ of 3 to all b2++ exi Lal auxo, * & G, J --~ & co- J - P - ol, co, 25 * HRE.J JFT 5 om. TO (Supp. O') 3- 1, Ko- (; ; H J All: elle, All 1 HSJ JJ H L or 10 TJ, JS 9,11 T -- c ..." |
 | | Apollonius Conics Books V to VII : The Arabic Translation of the Lost Greek Original in the Version of the Banu Musa (Sources in the History of Mat) volume I (Books V to VII Vol 1) by Gerald J. Toomer, Of Perga Apollonius Hardcover, 890 Pages, Published 1990 by Springer ISBN-13: 978-0-387-97216-9, ISBN: 0-387-97216-1 "With the publication of this book I discharge a debt which our era has long owed to the memory of a great mathematician of antiquity: to pub lish the /llost books" of the Conics of Apollonius in the form which is the closest we have to the original, the Arabic version of the Banu Musil. Un til now this has been accessible only in Halley's Latin translation of 1710 (and translations into other languages entirely dependent on that). Whi ..." |
 | | Al-Biruni on Transits A Study of an Arabic Treatise entitled Tamhid al-mustaqarr li-tahqiq ma'na al-mamarr by Abu l-Rayhan al-Biruni (d. 1048) by Mohammad Saffouri, Edward Stewart Kennedy, G. J. Toomer Hardcover, 229 Pages, Published 1998 by Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt A.M. ISBN-13: 978-3-8298-4033-0, ISBN: 3-8298-4033-0 |
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