DIOCLES, On Burning Mirrors by G J Toomer
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 manuscript. Mr. GolchTn- Ma'anT also sent me, most generously, a copy of his catalogue of the astronomical and mathematical manuscripts of the Shrine Library. I am grateful to the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, and the Universiteits-Bibliotheek, Leid'en, for providing me with microfilms of manuscripts I wished to consult, and to the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan, for granting me access to its manuscripts. The text pages in Arabic script and the Index of Technical Terms were set by a computer-assisted phototypesetting system, using computer programs developed at the University of Washington and a high-speed image-generation phototypesetting device. A continuous stream of text on punched cards was fed through the Katib formatting program, which broke up the text into lines and pages and arranged the section numbers and apparatus on each page. Output from Katib was fed through the compositor program Hattat to create a magnetic tape for use on the VideoComp phototypesetter.Toomer was a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and a Professor of the History of Mathematics at Brown University. He was educated in England and the United States. For many years, he focused his research efforts on the history of mathematics and astronomy. In these domains, he released the first edition of the Arabic version of the standard book on Conics in antiquity (lost in the original Greek: Apollonius Conics Books V to Vii, 1990), as well as the standard translation of the most important ancient astromnomical treatise (Ptolemy's Almagest, 1984). Since retirement, he has focused on the intellectual history of early modern Europe, particularly 17th-century England, where he has published an account of Arabic study (Eastern Wisedome and Learning, OUP 1996).
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| ISBN 13 | 9783642809835 |
| ISBN 10 | 3642809839 |
| Title | DIOCLES, On Burning Mirrors |
| Author | G J Toomer |
| Series | Sources In The History Of Mathematics And Physical Sciences |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Springer |
| Year published | 2012-01-24 |
| Number of pages | 252 |
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