# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gerald-j-toomer
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:30:50.551Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gerald-j-toomer"
name: "Gerald J. Toomer"
slug: "gerald-j-toomer"
description: "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."
tagline: "British astronomy and mathematics historian (born 1934)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1934-11-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.39
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.40486
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "傑拉爾德·詹姆斯·圖默"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جرالد تومر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_J._Toomer"
    title: "Gerald J. Toomer"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_J._Toomer"
    title: "Gerald J. Toomer"
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    title: "جرالد تومر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_J._Toomer"
    title: "Gerald J. Toomer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_J._Toomer"
    title: "Gerald J. Toomer"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump