John Selden: A Life in Scholarship
G. J. Toomer
John Selden: A Life in Scholarship
G. J. Toomer
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An intellectual biography of John Selden, the most learned Englishman of his time, a lawyer who produced important works in several different fields, including English history, law, and Jewish studies. The book examines his writings in detail, and relates them to contemporary events and the intellectual climate of his time.
This two-volume study of the writings of John Selden - arguably seventeenth-century England's greatest scholar - displays immense learning worthy of its subject. Toomer is to be congratulated for his magnificent achievement.
The most learned of English scholars, Selden has been an object of awe and wonder for more than three and a half centuries, but has proved simply too learned, too inaccessible or too obscure for even experts to form any sense of his total achievement. Thanks to this remarkable and possible unrepeatable commentary, now we can.
... Selden the scholar has left a body of work which could be assessed only by a scholar as formidably learned as himself. He has been fortunate indeed in having at last found such an interpreter.
The author was educated in England and the United States, and taught as a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and Professor of the History of Mathematics at Brown University. For many years his scholarly efforts were concentrated on the history of mathematics and astronomy. In these fields, he published what has become the standard translation of the most important ancient astromnomical treatise (Ptolemy's Almagest, 1984), and the first edition of the Arabic version of the standard work on Conics in antiquity (lost in the original Greek: Apollonius Conics Books V to Vii, 1990). Since retiring he has devoted himself to the intellectual history of early modern Europe, especially 17-th century England, in which he has published an account of the study of Arabic (Eastern Wisedome and Learning, OUP 1996).
This two-volume study of the writings of John Selden - arguably seventeenth-century England's greatest scholar - displays immense learning worthy of its subject. Toomer is to be congratulated for his magnificent achievement.
The most learned of English scholars, Selden has been an object of awe and wonder for more than three and a half centuries, but has proved simply too learned, too inaccessible or too obscure for even experts to form any sense of his total achievement. Thanks to this remarkable and possible unrepeatable commentary, now we can.
... Selden the scholar has left a body of work which could be assessed only by a scholar as formidably learned as himself. He has been fortunate indeed in having at last found such an interpreter.
The author was educated in England and the United States, and taught as a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and Professor of the History of Mathematics at Brown University. For many years his scholarly efforts were concentrated on the history of mathematics and astronomy. In these fields, he published what has become the standard translation of the most important ancient astromnomical treatise (Ptolemy's Almagest, 1984), and the first edition of the Arabic version of the standard work on Conics in antiquity (lost in the original Greek: Apollonius Conics Books V to Vii, 1990). Since retiring he has devoted himself to the intellectual history of early modern Europe, especially 17-th century England, in which he has published an account of the study of Arabic (Eastern Wisedome and Learning, OUP 1996).