A treatise on the astrolabe /
Author / Creator: | Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400. |
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Imprint: | Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c2002. |
Description: | xxiv, 358 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm. |
Language: | English |
Series: | A variorum edition of the works of Geoffrey Chaucer ; v. 6. The prose treatises ; pt. 1 Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400. Works. 1979 ; v. 6. Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400. Prose treatises ; pt. 1. |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4721197 |
Summary: | 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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Physical Description: | xxiv, 358 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-347) and index. |
ISBN: | 0806134135 (hc : alk. paper) |