Gerald J. Toomer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Gerald James Toomer is a historian of astronomy and mathematics who has written numerous books and papers on ancient Greek and medieval Islamic astronomy. In particular, he translated Ptolemy's Almagest into English.
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- Ptolemy's Almagest (1986) (299)
- The Arabic Version of Ptolemy's Planetary Hypotheses (1970) (136)
- A Survey of the Toledan Tables (1968) (65)
- Eastern wisedome and learning : the study of Arabic in seventeenth-century England (1998) (50)
- DIOCLES On Burning Mirrors (1976) (46)
- The Solar Theory of az-Zarqal A History of Errors (1969) (28)
- The Chord Table of Hipparchus and the Early History of Greek Trigonometry (1974) (25)
- Hipparchus on the distances of the sun and moon (1974) (23)
- Eastern wisedome and learning (1996) (22)
- Campanus of Novara and medieval planetary theory : Theorica planetarum (1971) (19)
- John Selden: A Life in Scholarship (2009) (18)
- On Burning Mirrors (1976) (15)
- Conics, books V to VII : the Arabic translation of the lost Greek original in the version of the Banū Mūsā (1990) (13)
- Galen on the astronomers and astrologers (1985) (11)
- The Solar Theory of Az‐Zarqāl: An Epilogue (1987) (10)
- Apollonius: Conics Books V to VII (1990) (10)
- The translation of the elements of euclid from the arabic into latin by hermann of carinthia: books vii–xii. edited by h. l. l. busard. (mathematical centre tracts 84). amsterdam (mathematische centrum). 1977. 198 pp (1980) (9)
- The Size of the Lunar Epicycle According to Hipparchus (1968) (8)
- DIOCLES, On Burning Mirrors: The Arabic Translation of the Lost Greek Original (2012) (7)
- Hipparchus Empirical Basis for his Lunar Mean Motions (1980) (6)
- Lost greek mathematical works in arabic translation (1984) (5)
- The Mathematician Zenodorus (1972) (5)
- Eastern Wisdome and Learning: The Study of Arabic in Seventeenth-Century England (2000) (4)
- Prophatius Judaeus and the Toledan Tables (1973) (3)
- A Note on Tamil Astronomical Tables (1963) (3)
- Henry Stubbe and the Beginnings of Islam: The Original and Progress of Mahometanism , edited by Nabil Matar (2016) (2)
- Ptolemy and his Greek predecessors. (1996) (2)
- Edward Pococke’s Arabic Translation of Grotius, De Veritate (2012) (2)
- THE FIFTH BOOK (2018) (2)
- A Further Note on Tamil Astronomical Tables (1964) (2)
- Selden's Historie of tithes: Genesis, publication, aftermath (2002) (2)
- THE SEVENTH BOOK (2018) (1)
- Book-Review - Ptolemy's Almagest (1984) (1)
- Le "Grand Commentaire" de Theon d'Alexandrie aux Tables Faciles de Ptolemee: Livres II et III. Theon of Alexandria , Anne Tihon (1993) (1)
- THE SIXTH BOOK (2018) (1)
- David Pingree, The Thousands of Abū Ma'shar . (Studies of the Warburg Institute, 30.) London: Warburg Institute, University of London, 1968, Pp. viii, 148. £3.0.0. (1970) (0)
- constellations and named stars (2015) (0)
- Menelaus (3), of Alexandria (1), mathematician and astronomer, fl. 95–98 CE (2016) (0)
- Hypsicles, of Alexandria (1), mathematician and astronomer, fl. c. 150 BCE (2016) (0)
- Anthony Grafton & Joanna Weinberg, “I have always loved the Holy Tongue” (2012) (0)
- Diodorus (4), of *Alexandria (1), mathematician and astronomer, 1st cent. BCE (2016) (0)
- Heron, of Alexandria (1), mathematician and inventor, fl. 62 CE (2016) (0)
- Zenodorus, mathematician, fl. 200 BCE (2016) (0)
- Pappus, of Alexandria (1), mathematician, fl. 320 CE (2016) (0)
- Figures to the Appendices (1990) (0)
- Apollonius (2), of Perge, Greek mathematician, fl. 200 BCE (2015) (0)
- Aratus (1), poet, c. 315–before 240 BCE (2015) (0)
- Obituary: A. J. SACHS (1914–1983) (1984) (0)
- Appendix D: Huygens’ solution of the problem of Pappus, Book IV Prop. 30 (1990) (0)
- Aristarchus (1), of Samos, Greek astronomer, 3rd cent. BCE (2015) (0)
- Diocles (4), mathematician, c. 200 BCE (2016) (0)
- Serapion (2), of Antioch (1), geographer, fl. 1st cent. BCE (2016) (0)
- Sosigenes (1), astronomer, 47 BCE (2016) (0)
- Bernard Heyberger (ed.), Orientalisme, science et controverse: Abraham Ecchellensis (1605–1664) (Turnhout: Brepols, 2010), 236 pp. ISBN: 9782503535678. (2014) (0)
- Ravius in the East (2020) (0)
- Ctesibius, inventor, fl. 270 BCE (2015) (0)
- Philippus (1), of Opus, astronomer, fl. c. 350 BCE (2016) (0)
- The Thousands of Abü Ma'shar. David Pingree (1970) (0)
- Essay Review: The New Astronomy Englished: New Astronomy (1995) (0)
- Philonides (2), Epicurean philosopher (2016) (0)
- Two Books Printed at Amsterdam by John Canne (2019) (0)
- Theon (4), of Alexandria, mathematical commentator (2016) (0)
- Meton, Athenian astronomer (2016) (0)
- Appendix A: Preface to the Conics of the Banū Mūsā (1990) (0)
- Book Review: Hypatia of Alexandria: Hypatia of Alexandria (1996) (0)
- A Sidelight on Grotius in Paris (2011) (0)
- Appendix C: Premisses to Book VII of Abū ’l-Husayn ’Abd al-Malik b. Muḥammad al-Shīrāzī (1990) (0)
- The Republic of Arabic Letters: Islam and the European Enlightenment, written by Alexander Bevilacqua (2020) (0)
- Episodes in the Mathematics of Medieval Islam. By J. L. Berggren (1988) (0)
- Hicetas, of Syracuse, 5th cent. BCE (2016) (0)
- Claudius Thrasyllus, Tiberius (2015) (0)
- Theodosius (4), of Bithynia, astronomer and mathematician (2016) (0)
- Ptolemy (4), mathematical writer (2016) (0)
- Figures to Book VII (1990) (0)
- Archimedes in the Middle Ages. Marshall Clagett (1967) (0)
- Appendix B: Premisses of the Banū Mūsā (1990) (0)
- Essay Review: Copernicus in Translation: Nicholas Copernicus on the Revolutions (1981) (0)
- Book Review: Byzantine Astronomy of the Fourteenth Century: Théodore Méliténiote: Tribiblos Astronomique, Livre I (1992) (0)
- Philon (2), of Byzantium, mechanician, fl. c. 200 BCE (2016) (0)
- Figures to the Introduction (1990) (0)
- Callippus, astronomer, fl. 330 BCE (2016) (0)
- Jan Loop, Johann Heinrich Hottinger: Arabic and Islamic Studies in the Seventeenth Century (2015) (0)
- Addenda and Corrigenda (2020) (0)
- Hipparchus (3), astronomer, fl. 2nd half of 2nd cent. BCE (2016) (0)
- Sosigenes (2), Peripatetic philosopher, 164 CE (2016) (0)
- Note on a Letter of Golius (2017) (0)
- Notes on Book V (1990) (0)
- Oenopides, of Chios, fl. late 5th cent. BCE (2016) (0)
- Eudoxus (1), of Cnidus, mathematician (2016) (0)
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