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BIBLIOGRAPHY CONTRIBUTOR

Gerald Toomer

First name

Gerald

Last name

Toomer

Bibliography entries by this contributor

Toomer, Gerald. 1990. Apollonius’ Conics Books V to VII. The Arabic Translation of the Lost Greek Original in the Version of the Banū Mūsā. Edition With Translation and Commentary.. New York: Springer-Verlag.
King, David, George Saliba, and Gerald Toomer. 1987. “The Solar Theory of Az-Zarqāl: An Epilogue”. In From Deferent to Equant: A Volume of Studies in the History of Science in the Ancient and Medieval Near East in Honor of E. S. Kennedy, 513-19. New York: The New York Academy of Sciences.
Ptolemy, Claudius. 1984. Ptolemy’s Almagest. Trans. Gerald Toomer. New York: Springer-Verlag.
Gillispie, Charles, and Gerald Toomer. 1973. “Al-Khwārizmī”. In Dictionary of Scientific Biography, 7:358-65. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons.
Toomer, Gerald. 1973. “Prophatius Judaeus and the Toledan Tables”. Isis 64 (3): 351-55.
Toomer, Gerald. 1969. “The Solar Theory of Az-Zarqāl: A History of Errors”. Centaurus 14 (1): 306-36.
Toomer, Gerald. 1968. “A Survey of the Toledan Tables”. Osiris 15: 5-174.
Toomer, Gerald. 1965. “Notes on Al-Bīrūnī on Transits”. Orientalia 34 (1): 45-72.
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