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A Treatise on the Astrolabe

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Format Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10 0806134135
ISBN-13 9780806134130
Publisher University of Oklahoma Press
Imprint University of Oklahoma Press
Country of Manufacture US
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date Aug 26th, 2002
Print length 400 Pages
Weight 1,024 grams
Dimensions 25.40 x 17.80 x 3.30 cms
Ksh 10,850.00
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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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