A Treatise on the Astrolabe: (Variorum Chaucer Series)
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Geoffrey Chaucer (Author) Sigmund Eisner (Contributor)
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A Treatise the Astrolabe by Geoffrey Chaucer is the work of an avid amateur astronomer who happened also to be England's greatest medieval poet. A user of the astrolabe can plot the movement of the stars, tell time, and calculate numerous other results. Chaucer translated and revised a standard Latin treatment of the astrolabe. His treatise, which is generally regarded as one of the first technical manuals in English and a model of how technical manuals should be written.Not since 1872 has a free-standing edition of A Treatise the Astrolabe been published. Thanks to the expertise of its editor, Sigmund Eisner, who supplies sixty-eight illustrations, this Variorum edition provides a more detailed exposition than previously available. Eisner's extensive labors result in the first complete record of textual variants found in the thirty-two surviving manuscripts of the work and in all the major printed text published between 1532 and 1987. This landmark edition also presents a thorough digest of all published commentary on Chaucer's treatise.
Amplified by sixty-eight illustrations, this variorum edition of Chaucer's A Treatise on the Astrolabe provides a more detailed exposition of the treatise than has ever before been available. 1 black & white illustration, and 1 colour illustration
About the Author
Sigmund Eisner is Professor Emeritus at the University of Arizona. He is the author of A Table of Wonder: A Source Study of ""The Wife of Bath's Tale.""
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- Contributor: Geoffrey Chaucer
- Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
- ISBN13: 9780806134130
- Number of Pages: 400
- Packaged Dimensions: 178x254x33mm
- Format: Hardback
- Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
- Release Date: 2002-08-30
- Series: Variorum Chaucer Series
- Binding: Hardback
- Biography: Sigmund Eisner is Professor Emeritus at the University of Arizona. He is the author of A Table of Wonder: A Source Study of ""The Wife of Bath's Tale.""
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