Gerald Toomer

Gebundenes Buch

Christianus Ravius

an Intellectual Biography

Beschreibung

The present work is about the life, works and travels of a seventeenth-century wandering scholar through Europe and the Near East, his connections to the foremost scholars of his time, and his promotion of the study of Arabic through the oriental manuscripts that he collected.

Autor

G. J. Toomer was educated at Oxford and Brown Universities and is Professor Emeritus of the History of Mathematics at Brown University. He has published extensively on the history of mathematics and astronomy, and on seventeenth-century intellectual history. His most recent book is John Selden: a Life in Scholarship (Oxford, 2009)

Produktdetails

• Verlag: de Gruyter Brill
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 757g
• ISBN-13: 9789004679672
• ISBN-10: 9004679677
• Artikelnr.: 68418028