A Treatise on the Astrolabe Hardback
by Geoffrey Chaucer
Edited by Sigmund Eisner
Part of the Variorum Chaucer Series series
Hardback
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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.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:400 pages, 1 black & white illustration, and 1 colour illustration
- Publisher:University of Oklahoma Press
- Publication Date:30/08/2002
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- ISBN:9780806134130
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:400 pages, 1 black & white illustration, and 1 colour illustration
- Publisher:University of Oklahoma Press
- Publication Date:30/08/2002
- Category:
- ISBN:9780806134130
