A Treatise on the Astrolabe

By: Geoffrey Chaucer, Sigmund Eisner (Editor)

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Hardcover | 30 August 2002

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400 Pages

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25.4 x 17.8 x 3.3

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A Treatise on 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 on 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 texts published between 1532 and 1987. This landmark edition also presents a thorough digest of all published commentary on Chaucer's treatise.

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