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.
4 Ebooks by Ptolemy
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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Ptolemy: Ptolemy’s Geography
Ptolemy’s Geography is the only book on cartography to have survived from the classical period and one of the most influential scientific works of all time. Written in the second century AD, for more …
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Ptolemy: The collected works of Ptolemy. Illustrated
Ptolemy was a mathematician, astronomer, geographer, astrologer and music theorist, who wrote about a dozen scientific treatises, three of which were of importance to later Byzantine, Islamic, and …
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